Aiken, an editorial board member of the white nationalist, neo-Confederate, white supremacist organization The League of the South, lamented that Simms was purged from the canon of American literature because of the "unpardonable sin Simms committed when he published an account of Columbia, South Carolina's destruction in which he dared to deny the North a righteous victory." Simms asserted of the North's tactics in the Civil War, "whatever might have existed in virtue of their cause, is forfeit by the processes which they have taken for its maintenance." Author and segregationist Donald Davidson claimed, "The neglect of Simms's stature is nothing less than a scandal when it results....in the disappearance of his books from the common market and therefore from the readers' bookshelf. This is literary murder". Literary scholars and historians continue to recognize Simms as a major force in Antebellum literature and a leading intellectual. The University of South Carolina has digitized most of his works and papers, which have been digitized by the available as print on demand books. During recent years, a "Simms Renaissance" has included scholars such as James E. Kibler, Mary Ann Wimsatt, Sean Busick, Charles S. Watson, and John C. Guilds. Kibler may be currently the leading authority on Simms's poetry; Guilds produced the major biography of the prolific author; Busick has concentrated on Simms's work as a historian; Wimsatt has published "The Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms" as well as an edited version of his short stories, titled Tales of the South (a writer for The Virginia Quarterly Review called Wimsatt's introduction to the tales "magisterial"). Contributing to the renaissance is a journal titled The Simms Review. Issued annually, it contains recent articles about the author. List of works Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1825) Lyrical and Other Poems (1827) Tile Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems (1829) The Tricolor, or Three Days of Blood in Paris (1830) Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea (1832). Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal (1833) Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia (1834) The Yemassee (1835) The Partisan (1835) Pelayo: a Story of the Goth (1838) Mellichampe (1836) Richard Hurdis; or, the Avenger of Blood. A Tale of Alabama (1838) Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi (1840) History of South Carolina (1840, with an expanded second edition in 1860) The Kinsmen (1841) The Wigwam and the Cabin (1845) ’’The Life