The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide To The Counties Of South Carolina

Author : Walter Edgar
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611171518

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The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Counties of South Carolina by Walter Edgar Pdf

The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Counties documents the defining aspects of the forty-six counties that make up the state, from mountains to coast. Updated to include data from the 2010 census, these entries detail the historical, economic, political, and cultural character inherent in each location, noting major population centers, enterprises, and attractions. The guide also includes an appendix of entires on the state's original parishes and districts existing prior to alignment into the current counties. An introductory overview essay outlines the history and function of county development and authority in South Carolina. The resulting volume provides a concise guide to the state at the county level, from Abbeville to York.

Author : Walter Edgar
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611171501

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The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Governors of South Carolina by Walter Edgar Pdf

The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Governors documents the lives an dcareers of the 111 white men and one Indian American woman who have held the Palmetto State's highest office from 1669 to the present. This digital edition expands the listings from the print encyclopedia to include entries on appointed as well as elected governors and to update the biographies of more recent holders of the office. From the first proprietary governor, William Sayle, to current governor Nikki Haley, South Carolina's chief executives have wielded the authority to define the preservation and progress of the state through its complex and storied past, with each leaving his or her mark on the dynamic legacy of the governor's office.

Author : Tom Mack
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611173482

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The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers by Tom Mack Pdf

The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers expands the range of writers included in the landmark South Carolina Encyclopedia. This guide updates the entries on writers featured in the original encyclopedia and augments that list substantially with dozens of new essays on additional authors from the late eighteenth century to the present who have contributed to the Palmetto State’s distinctive literary heritage. Each profile in this concise reference includes essential biographical facts and critical assessments to place the featured writers in the larger context of South Carolina’s literary tradition. The guide comprises 127 entries written by more than seventy literary scholars, and it also highlights the sixty-five writers inducted thus far into the South Carolina Academy of Authors, which serves as the state’s literary hall of fame. Rich in natural beauty and historic complexity, South Carolina has long been a source of inspiration for writers. The talented novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, journalists, historians, and other writers featured here represent the countless anonymous individuals who have shared tales and lore of South Carolina.

Author : Walter Edgar
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611171495

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The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina by Walter Edgar Pdf

The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina details the people, places, and struggles that defined the region's prominent role in the path to American liberty from British authority. Nearly 140 battles of the American Revolution were fought in South Carolina, more than in any other colony. As America's first civil war, the revolution pitted Loyalists against partisans and patriots in the fierce combat that established the legacies of figures such as Francis Marion, Nathanael Greene, Peter Horry, Henry and John Laurens, Daniel Morgan, and Andrew Jackson. In addition to profiling these leaders, this guide also chronicles the major combat operations, including the battles of Ninety Six, Cowpens, Camden, Kings Mountain, and Charleston Harbor. Also documented are the vital contributions of African Americans and Native Americans in the struggle and the roles of Revolutionary War heroines such as Kate Barry, Emily Geiger, Rebecca Brewton Motte, and Dorcas Nelson Richardson. The origins of the South Carolina state flag and seal in the war are detailed as well in this treasure trove of fascinating information for students and historians of the American Revolution.

Author : Walter B. Edgar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : South Carolina
ISBN : OCLC:53051522

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The South Carolina Encyclopedia by Walter B. Edgar Pdf

Author : Nancy Capace
Publisher : Somerset Publishers, Inc.
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780403093472

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Encyclopedia of South Carolina by Nancy Capace Pdf

The Encyclopedia of South Carolina contains detailed information on States: Symbols and Designations, Geography, Archaeology, State History, Local History on individual cities, towns and counties, Chronology of Historic Events in the State, Profiles of Governors, Political Directory, State Constitution, Bibliography of books about the state and an Index.

Author : W. Eric Emerson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611172867

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Palmetto Profiles by W. Eric Emerson Pdf

Palmetto Profiles documents the lives and accomplishments of the inductees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame during its first forty years. As Governor John C. West predicted in his dedication speech, the Hall of Fame has indeed become a "vital and integral part of the history and culture of South Carolina." Nearly ninety citizens have been inducted since Apollo 16 astronaut Colonel Charles Duke, Jr., became the first honoree in 1973. Each year one contemporary and one deceased individual is recognized by the hall for outstanding contributions to South Carolina's heritage and progress. To date, inductees have included political leaders and reformers, artists, writers, scientists, soldiers, clergy, educators, athletes, and others. U.S. president Andrew Jackson, authors Elizabeth Coker and Pat Conroy, jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, artists Jasper Johns and Elizabeth O'Neil Verner, Catawba King Hagler, Generals Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter, civil rights leaders Mary McLeod Bethune and Reverend Benjamin E. Mays, U.S. senators J. Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, and Nobel Prize winning physicist Charles H. Townes are just some of the representative South Carolinians memorialized in the Hall of Fame for their lasting legacies in the Palmetto State and beyond. Published on the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the South Carolina Hall of Fame and drawn from biographical entries in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, this guidebook presents concise profiles of the inductees from 1973 to 2013. Palmetto Profiles, like the Hall of Fame itself, serves as a tangible link to South Carolina's rich and complex past to the benefit of residents, visitors, and students alike. The volume also includes illustrations of all inductees and a foreword by Walter Edgar, a 2008 Hall of Fame inductee, author of South Carolina: A History, and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia.

Author : Alexia Jones Helsley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439666265

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Lost Aiken County by Alexia Jones Helsley Pdf

From a home to the fierce Westo tribe to a hub of the equestrian industry, Aiken County has had a huge influence on South Carolina. And some of the structures that mark that history have disappeared. More than two hundred years ago, the Horse Creek Chickasaw Squirrel King held court near North Augusta. The first locomotive built for public transportation, the "Best Friend" from Charleston to Hamburg, first ran in the area. The home of noted businessman Richard Flint Howe hosted both the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and students of the University of South Carolina Aiken. William Gregg and the Graniteville Mill helped shape the textile industry in the state. Author Alexia Jones Helsley details the lost history of Aiken County.

Author : Marjorie Julian Spruill,Valinda W. Littlefield,Joan Marie Johnson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820329369

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South Carolina Women by Marjorie Julian Spruill,Valinda W. Littlefield,Joan Marie Johnson Pdf

Volume Two: The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules--including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women--were dramatically bent if not broken, these women carved out new roles for themselves and others. The volume begins with a profile of Laura Towne and Ellen Murray, who founded the Penn School on St. Helena Island for former slaves. Subsequent essays look at such women as the five Rollin sisters, members of a prominent black family who became passionate advocates for women's rights during Reconstruction; writer Josephine Pinckney, who helped preserve African American spirituals and explored conflicts between the New and Old South in her essays and novels; and Dr. Matilda Evans, the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state. Intractable racial attitudes often caused women to follow separate but parallel paths, as with Louisa B. Poppenheim and Marion B. Wilkinson. Poppenheim, who was white, and Wilkinson, who was black, were both driving forces in the women's club movement. Both saw clubs as a way not only to help women and children but also to showcase these positive changes to the wider nation. Yet the two women worked separately, as did the white and black state federations of women's clubs. Often mixing deference with daring, these women helped shape their society through such avenues as education, religion, politics, community organizing, history, the arts, science, and medicine. Women in the mid- and late twentieth century would build on their accomplishments.

Author : Michael C. Scoggins
Publisher : HPN Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781893619944

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Historic York County by Michael C. Scoggins Pdf

Author : Brenda E. Stevenson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442252172

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What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast? by Brenda E. Stevenson Pdf

The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U.S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination in the form of plantation lore have continued to distort the African American social identity. In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed. The themes of this work center on the multifaceted reality of loss, recovery, resilience and resistance embedded in the desire of African/African descended people to experience family life despite their enslavement. These themes look back to the critical loss that Africans, both those taken and those who remained, endured, as the enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley honors in the line—“What sorrows labour in my parents’ breast?,” and look forward to the generations of slaves born through the Civil War era who struggled to realize their humanity in the recreation of family ties that tied them, through blood and emotion, to a reality beyond their legal bondage to masters and mistresses. Stevenson pays particular attention to the ways in which gender, generation, location, slave labor, the economic status of slaveholders and slave societies’ laws affected the black family in slavery.

Author : Jerome V. Reel
Publisher : Clemson University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781638041054

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High Seminary: Vol. 1 by Jerome V. Reel Pdf

This study shows how Clemson weaves together the three federal charges of land-grant institutions—teaching (specified in the Land Grant Act of 1862), research (the Hatch Act of 1887), and public service (the Smith-Lever Act of 1914)—into a “high seminary of learning.” Clemson students and their lives here are the other major theme of this work. The narrative of this institution traces the people who created it, those who guided it, and the people who lived under its influence and the paths they followed as they left “dear old Clemson.”

Author : Aïda Rogers
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611179040

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State of the Heart by Aïda Rogers Pdf

A heartfelt collection of personal stories that connect a common past and offer hope for a promising future For many, South Carolina is a sunny vacation destination. For those who have been lucky enough to call it home, it is a source of rich memories and cultural heritage. In this final volume of State of the Heart, thirty-eight nationally and regionally known writers share their personal stories about places in South Carolina that hold special meaning for them. While this is a book about place, it is ultimately about people's connections to one another, to a complex, common past, and to ongoing efforts to build a future of promise and possibility in the Palmetto state. Editor Aïda Rogers groups the essays thematically, with poetry, vintage photographs, and even recipes introducing each section. She unites pieces by New York Times best-selling novelists Patti Callahan Henry, CJ Lyons, and John Jakes; USA Today best-selling mystery writer Susan Boyer; historians Walter Edgar, Orville Vernon Burton, and Bernard Powers; artist and author Mary Whyte; and cookbook authors Sallie Ann Robinson and the Lee Brothers—just to name a few. Nikky Finney, a South Carolina native and winner of the 2011 National Book Award for poetry, provides the foreword. The afterword is written by Cassandra King, author of six novels, including the New York Times best seller The Sunday Wife.

Author : John Clark,Patricia Pierce
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762767809

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Scenic Driving South Carolina by John Clark,Patricia Pierce Pdf

This indispensable highway companion maps out short trips for exploring the Palmetto State's scenic byways and back roads.

Author : Walter B. Edgar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030108487

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The South Carolina Encyclopedia by Walter B. Edgar Pdf

With nearly 2,000 entries and 520 illustrations, this comprehensive reference surveys the history and culture of the Palmetto State from A to Z, mountains to coast, and prehistory to the present.