101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina

Author : Valinda W. Littlefield
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361604

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101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina by Valinda W. Littlefield Pdf

Prior to the twenty-first century, most historical writing about women in South Carolina focused on elite White women, even though working-class women of diverse backgrounds were actively engaged in the social, economic, and political battles of the state. Although often unrecognized publicly, they influenced cultural and political landscapes both within and outside of the state's borders through their careers, writing, art, music, and activism. Despite significant cultural, social, and political barriers, these brave and determined women affected sweeping change that advanced the position of women as well as their communities. The entries in 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina, which include many from the landmark text The South Carolina Encyclopedia, offer a concise and approachable history of the state, while recognizing the sacrifice, persistence, and sheer grit of its heroines and history makers. A foreword is provided by Walter Edgar, Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina.

Author : Bernard E. Powers, Jr.
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361413

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101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina by Bernard E. Powers, Jr. Pdf

The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of San Miguel de Gualdape and Santa Elena, arrived even before the first permanent English settlement was established in 1670. For more than 350 years South Carolina's African American population has had a significant influence on the state's cultural, economic, and political development. 101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina depicts the long presence and profound influence people of African descent have had on the Palmetto State. Each entry offers a brief description of an individual with ties to South Carolina who played a significant role in the history of the state, nation, and, in some cases, world. Drawing upon the landmark text The South Carolina Encyclopedia, edited by Walter Edgar, the combined entries offer a concise and approachable history of the state and the African Americans who have shaped it. A foreword is provided by Walter Edgar, Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina.

Author : Courtney L. Tollison Hartness
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643364179

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"Our Country First, Then Greenville" by Courtney L. Tollison Hartness Pdf

Places Greenville's experience during World War I within the context of the progressive era to better understand the rise of this New South city Greenville, South Carolina has become an attractive destination, frequently included in lists of the "Best Small Cities" in America. While Greenville's twenty-first-century Renaissance has been impressive, in "Our Country First, Then Greenville," Courtney L. Tollison Hartness explores an earlier period, revealing how Greenville's experience during World War I served to generate massive development in the city and the region. It was this moment that catalyzed Greenville's development into a modern city, setting the stage for the continued growth that persists into the present-day. "Our Country First, Then Greenville" explores Greenville's home-front experience of race relations, dramatic population growth (the number of Greenville residents nearly tripled between 1900 and 1930s), the women's suffrage movement, and the contributions of African Americans and women to Greenville's history. This important work features photos of Greenville, found in archival collections throughout the country and dating back over one hundred years.

Author : Marc Egnal Professor of History York University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195356878

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Divergent Paths : How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth by Marc Egnal Professor of History York University Pdf

Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldrums of slow growth. In this comprehensive look at North American economic history, Marc Egnal argues that culture and institutions play an integral role in determining economic outcome. He focuses his examination on the eight colonies of the North, five colonies of the South (which together made up the original thirteen states), and French Canada. Using census data, diaries, travelers' accounts, and current scholarship, Egnal systematically explores how institutions (such as slavery in the South and the seigneurial system in French Canada) and cultural arenas (such as religion, literacy, entrepreneurial spirit, and intellectual activity) influenced development. He seeks to answer why three societies with similar standards of living in 1750 became so dissimilar in development. By the mid-nineteenth century, the northern states had surged ahead in growth, and this gap continued to widen into the twentieth century. Egnal argues that culture and institutions allowed this growth in the North, not resources or government policies. Both the South and French Canada stressed hierarchy and social order more than the drive for wealth. Rarely have such parallels been drawn between these two societies. Complete numerous helpful appendices, figures, tables, and maps, Divergent Paths is a rich source of unique perspectives on economic development with strong implications for emerging societies.

Author : Joy Hakim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : America
ISBN : 0195153405

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Sourcebook and Index : Documents that shaped the American Nation by Joy Hakim Pdf

Covers the period of American history from the 1880s to World War I.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : WISC:89067696849

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Caroline Grego
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469671369

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Hurricane Jim Crow by Caroline Grego Pdf

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane's long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the political, economic, and social conditions of Jim Crow were inextricable from its environmental dimensions. This narrative history of a monumental disaster and its aftermath uncovers how Black workers and politicians, white landowners and former enslavers, northern interlocutors and humanitarians all met on the flooded ground of the coast and fought to realize very different visions for the region's future. Through a telescoping series of narratives in which no one's actions were ever fully triumphant or utterly futile, Hurricane Jim Crow explores with nuance this painful and contradictory history and shows how environmental change, political repression, and communal traditions of resistance, survival, and care converged.

Author : Lorri Glover
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300255942

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney by Lorri Glover Pdf

The enthralling story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner during the Revolutionary era Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722–1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most respected women in a world dominated by men. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, she spent her youth in England before settling in the American South and enriching herself through the successful management of plantations dependent on enslaved laborers. Tracing her extraordinary journey and drawing on the vast written records she left behind—including family and business letters, spiritual musings, elaborate recipes, macabre medical treatments, and astute observations about her world and herself—this engaging biography offers a rare woman’s first-person perspective into the tumultuous years leading up to and through the Revolutionary War and unsettles many common assumptions regarding the place and power of women in the eighteenth century.

Author : Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216160731

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The Untold Story of Women of Color in the League of Women Voters by Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins Pdf

The Untold Story of Women of Color in the League of Women Voters explores ways in which these women have been marginalized and recognizes how their contributions will positively influence the organization as it moves into its next 100 years. On February 14, 2020, the League of Women Voters of the United States celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding. Although women of color have always made significant contributions to women's suffrage and the women's movements, their contributions, particularly as they relate to the League of Women Voters (LWV), have been marginalized and relegated to the footnotes of the organization's history. The Untold Story of Women of Color in the League of Women Voters adds a new dimension to these conversations. The book is structured to show the progression of the relationship between the League of Women Voters and its members of color as manifested in changes to its policies, practices, symbols, and messaging. It begins with the suffrage movement and continues until the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the League and uses actual correspondence, convention minutes, existing League histories, and personal accounts to tell the League story. Chapter titles disclose the philosophical shifts in attitude at each stage of the organization's evolution.

Author : Robert Olwell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 080148491X

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Masters, Slaves, & Subjects by Robert Olwell Pdf

While slavery was peculiar within a democratic republic, it was an integral and seldom questioned part of the 18th-century British empire. Examining the complex culture of the South Carolina law country from the end of the Stono Rebellion through the American Revolution, historian Robert Olwell analyzes the structures and internal dynamics of a world in which both masters and slaves were also imperial subjects.

Author : Gene Luna,Jimmie Gahagan
Publisher : First-Year Experience and Students in Transition University of South Carolina
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : College students
ISBN : UOM:39015079165141

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Learning Initiatives in the Residential Setting by Gene Luna,Jimmie Gahagan Pdf

Author : Marc Egnal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198026884

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Divergent Paths by Marc Egnal Pdf

Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldrums of slow growth. In this comprehensive look at North American economic history, Marc Egnal argues that culture and institutions play an integral role in determining economic outcome. He focuses his examination on the eight colonies of the North, five colonies of the South (which together made up the original thirteen states), and French Canada. Using census data, diaries, travelers' accounts, and current scholarship, Egnal systematically explores how institutions (such as slavery in the South and the seigneurial system in French Canada) and cultural arenas (such as religion, literacy, entrepreneurial spirit, and intellectual activity) influenced development. He seeks to answer why three societies with similar standards of living in 1750 became so dissimilar in development. By the mid-nineteenth century, the northern states had surged ahead in growth, and this gap continued to widen into the twentieth century. Egnal argues that culture and institutions allowed this growth in the North, not resources or government policies. Both the South and French Canada stressed hierarchy and social order more than the drive for wealth. Rarely have such parallels been drawn between these two societies. Complete numerous helpful appendices, figures, tables, and maps, Divergent Paths is a rich source of unique perspectives on economic development with strong implications for emerging societies.

Author : Edward J. Blum,John H. Matsui
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812253047

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War Is All Hell by Edward J. Blum,John H. Matsui Pdf

"An examination of how Americans brought concepts of the devil, demons, and hell into every fabric of their lives and times in the American Civil War. These influences continued to impact the nation and its people after the war"--

Author : Greta Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493016754

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Ohio's Remarkable Women by Greta Anderson Pdf

Moving portraits of fourteen independent women who helped make Ohio what it is today. Ohio's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History profiles the lives of the state's most important historical figures--women from across Ohio, from many different backgrounds, and from various walks of life. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women broke through social, cultural, and political barriers to make contributions to society that still have an impact today. Meet the First Circuit Court judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, a pioneer in the field of law; Newbery Award-winning children's book author Lois Lenski, whose numerous books continue to inspire young readers; educator Hallie Q. Brown, past president of Wilberforce University; and legendary pioneer Annie Oakley, champion markswoman and beloved performer.

Author : Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812221596

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The Ties that Buy by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor Pdf

The author traces the lives of urban women in early America to reveal how they used the ties of residence, work, credit, and money to shape consumer culure at a time when the politics of the marketplace were gaining national significance.