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Created to foster the study of the American South, the Institute for Southern Studies serves as a link to the very rich research resources at the University of South Carolina as well as providing access to other important research facilities throughout the state. It brings together outstanding faculty specializing in the study of the South from a wide variety of disciplines for research, teaching, special seminars and public programs.

The Institute provides students with a variety of valuable, challenging courses and research projects, and the opportunity to earn a Minor in Southern Studies. Its public programs on campus, throughout the state and through public media extend its educational mission across the region and the nation. Through its scholarly publications the Institute fosters the continuing exploration of all aspects of this important region.

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ISS will join forces with SCETV this spring to televise a debate about which 20th-century Southern novel has been the most influential. The debate, which will air on SCETV on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 at 9pm, features two of the nation's leading scholars of Southern literature: Professor Trudier Harris of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Professor Noel Polk, editor of the Mississippi Quarterly. Professor Walter Edgar will moderate the debate. You can join the debate with your own opinions.

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Institute for Southern Studies
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University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
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Images in the collage: Dr. Walter Edgar, Director of ISS (top far left); South Carolina: A History, by Walter Edgar (top left); Edisto Island (top right); South Caroliniana Library (below Edisto Island); John H. Gary, Commander of the South Carolina College Cadets (top far right); Columbia after it was burned in the Civil War