Welcome

In the mid-19th-century, William Gilmore Simms did more than any other writer and editor to frame white southern self-identity, nationalism, and historical consciousness. He also did more to foster the South’s literary life and place in America’s imagination.

With the Simms Initiatives, generously funded by the Watson-Brown Foundation and the University of South Carolina Libraries, one has growing access to this prolific author’s work. That comes through both digital and Print on Demand editions. The Initiatives also are compiling as complete a bibliography of Simms’s writings as possible.

Recent Additions

Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney		The Ghost of My Husband: A Tale of The Crescent City		The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 6, Supplement

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Are you a Simms scholar, archivist, or enthusiast?  Do you know of texts or materials related to William Gilmore Simms that need to be shared online? 

Become a part of the Simms Initiatives and join our efforts to make the author, his writings, and his world more accessible than it has ever been to the academic community. Help shape the direction of Simms studies and the greater understanding of antebellum American culture as a whole by participating in the development of this collection. 

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