New Acquisitions

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We are excited to present the following selection of books added to our collection this month.

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Check out the booklist below featuring new titles to the South Carolina State Library.

Acquisitions

2025

August

Cover of A Sharecropper's Daughter Tells Her Family Story

A Sharecropper's Daughter Tells Her Family Story
Author: McQueen, Dorothy J.
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: S.C. B M1734M

July

Cover of A Confederate Girl's Diary

A Confederate Girl's Diary
Author: Dawson, Sarah Morgan
Publication Year: 1960
Call Number: 973.782 DAWS

Cover of A Soldier's Life: A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion

A Soldier's Life: A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion
Author: Cummings, Edna W.
Publication Year: 2025
Call Number: B C9713C

Cover of Beyond the First 48

Beyond the First 48
Author: Wright, Shawn
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: S.C. B W953W

Cover of Deliberative Policymaking: Redesigning How We Make Education Policy

Deliberative Policymaking: Redesigning How We Make Education Policy
Author: Grant, Elizabeth
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 371.010973 GRAN

Cover of Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Author: Chinn, Sarah E.
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 810.9 CHIN

Cover of Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture

Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
Author: Betsky, Aaron
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 720.28 BETS

Cover of Justice Be Done: A Caleb Knowles Mystery

Justice Be Done: A Caleb Knowles Mystery
Author: Damron, Carla
Publication Year: 2023
Call Number: S.C. 813.6 DAMR

Cover of Klandamentalism: Bob Jones at the Intersection of Revivalism, Politics, and White Supremacy

Klandamentalism: Bob Jones at the Intersection of Revivalism, Politics, and White Supremacy
Author: Lewis, Camille Kaminski
Publication Year: 2025
Call Number: S.C. 269 LEWI

Cover of Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation

Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
Author: Volić, Ismar
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 324.6 VOLI

Cover of Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation

Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation
Author: Márquez, Cecilia
Publication Year: 2023
Call Number: 975 MÁRQ

Cover of Managing the Arts in Rural Areas

Managing the Arts in Rural Areas
Author: Snider, David Andrew
Publication Year: 2023
Call Number: 700.68 SNID

Cover of Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State

Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State
Author: Gohdes, Anita R.
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 303.48 GOHD

Cover of Royal Raiders: The Tories of the American Revolution

Royal Raiders: The Tories of the American Revolution
Author: Callahan, North
Publication Year: 1963
Call Number: 973.314 CALL

Cover of Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank

Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
Author: Hill Edwards, Justene
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 330.9008996 HILL

Cover of The African Ancestors Garden: History and Memory at the International African American Museum

The African Ancestors Garden: History and Memory at the International African American Museum
Author: Hood, Walter
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: S.C. 712.0899 HOOD

Cover of The Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory: A Facsimilie Reprinting with Additional Introduction & Contents

The Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory: A Facsimilie Reprinting with Additional Introduction & Contents
Author: U.S. Department of Interior
Publication Year: 1907
Call Number: 929.30899755 INDE V.2

Cover of The Stackhouse Family

The Stackhouse Family
Author: Stackhouse, William Romig
Publication Year: 1993
Call Number: S.C. 929.2 STAC

Cover of Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Lessons I Learned from All Three

Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Lessons I Learned from All Three
Author: Staley, Dawn
Publication Year: 2025
Call Number: S.C. B S7824S

Cover of The Yearbook of the Poetry Society of South Carolina

The Yearbook of the Poetry Society of South Carolina
Author: Poetry Society of South Carolina
Publication Year: 2025
Call Number: S.C. 811.08 POET 2025

June

Cover of Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul

Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul
Author: Shetterly, Aran
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 975.662 SHET

Cover of Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Author: Edwards, Laura F.
Publication Year: 2022
Call Number: 344.7304 EDWA

Cover of Our South: Black Food Through My Lens

Our South: Black Food Through My Lens
Author: Shanti, Ashleigh
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 641.5929 SHAN

Cover of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Author: Helton, Laura E.
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 026 HELT

Cover of Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present

Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
Author: Berry, Mary Frances
Publication Year: 2025
Call Number: 331.3 BERR

Cover of Southern Black Women and their Struggle for Freedom During the Civil War and Reconstruction

Southern Black Women and their Struggle for Freedom During the Civil War and Reconstruction
Author: Bell, Karen Cook
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 908.996 BELL

Cover of Terror & Truth: Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement

Terror & Truth: Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement
Author: King, Stephen A.
Publication Year: 2023
Call Number: 338.4 KING

Cover of The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns

The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
Author: Turner, William Hobart
Publication Year: 2021
Call Number: B T944T

Cover of This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South

This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
Author: Crawford, Alan Pell
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 975 CRAW

Cover of Why We Vote

Why We Vote
Author: Fiss, Owen M.
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 342.73 FISS

Cover of Yellow Fever and the South

Yellow Fever and the South
Author: Humphreys, Margaret
Publication Year: 1999
Call Number: 614.5 HUMP

Cover of Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved

Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved
Author: Holmes, Jasmine L.
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: B E599H

Cover of A field guide to mushrooms of the Carolinas

A field guide to mushrooms of the Carolinas
Author: Bessette, Alan E.
Publication Year: 2025
Call Number: S.C. 579.609 BESS

Cover of Black in blues : how a color tells the story of my people

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Author: Perry, Imani
Publication Year: 2025
Call Number: 305.896 PERR

Cover of Free Black Charlestonians in Debate: The Complete Proceedings of the Clionian Debating Society, 1847-1858

Free Black Charlestonians in Debate: The Complete Proceedings of the Clionian Debating Society, 1847-1858
Author: Ray, Angela G.
Publication Year: 2025
Call Number: S.C. 808.5306 RAY

Cover of How the South Turned Red: From a Democratic Past to a Republican Present

How the South Turned Red: From a Democratic Past to a Republican Present
Author: Heath, Jim
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: S.C. 320.0973 HEAT

Cover of How We Gather Matters: Sustainable Event Planning for Purpose and Impact

How We Gather Matters: Sustainable Event Planning for Purpose and Impact
Author: Rotchild, Leor
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 394.2068 ROTC

Cover of Justice Be Done: A Caleb Knowles Mystery

Justice Be Done: A Caleb Knowles Mystery
Author: Damron, Carla
Publication Year: 2023
Call Number: S.C. 813.6 DAMR

Cover of Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861

Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861
Author: O'Hanlon, Michael E.
Publication Year: 2023
Call Number: 355.00973 OHAN

May

Cover of A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs

A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs
Author: Sanders, Crystal
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 378.3 SAND