The Wpa Guide To South Carolina

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595342386

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The WPA Guide to South Carolina by Federal Writers' Project Pdf

During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to South Carolina presents a state at the epicenter of Southern culture. The Palmetto State’s guide comes complete with the standard driving tours across the Blue Ridge Mountains and Mid-Atlantic coast as well as recipes for delicacies such has Cracklin’ Bread and Peach Leather.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024881214

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South Carolina by Anonim Pdf

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1941.

Author : Ann M. Volkwein
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836851447

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South Carolina by Ann M. Volkwein Pdf

Examines the history, people, land, economy and commerce, politics and government, culture, notable people, and state events and attractions of South Carolina.

Author : Works Projects Administration,Walter B. Edgar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : South Carolina
ISBN : OCLC:49915076

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South Carolina by Works Projects Administration,Walter B. Edgar Pdf

Author : J. I. Hayes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1570033994

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South Carolina and the New Deal by J. I. Hayes Pdf

JACK IRBY HAYES, JR., revisits the South Carolina of the 1930s to determine the impact of federal programs on the state's economy, politics, culture, and citizenry. He traces the waxing and waning of support for programs such as Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and concludes that the modernization of South Carolina would have been delayed without their intervention. Suggesting that the New Deal hastened the end of one-party political domination, Hayes proposes that it also initiated a new era of modernized agriculture and banking practices, rural electrical service, labor restrictions, relief programs, and cultural resurgence. Hayes finds that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's initiatives enjoyed widespread support among South Carolinians. He documents the welcoming of agricultural and erosion controls, welfare relief, child labor laws, minimum wage requirements, public construction, state parks, and massive hydroelectric projects. He also credits the New Deal with sparking an intellectual reawakening and a restoration of faith in capitalism, democracy, and progress. But Hayes demonstrates that

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643364308

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South Carolina by Anonim Pdf

The Federal Writers Project creates an image of South Carolina of years past All of us, at one time or another, have had a strong desire to be able to get into a time machine and be transported magically to an earlier place and time. Science has not yet produced for us such a time machine, but the Federal Writers Project (FWP), a division of the Works Progress Administration, did produce for prosperity guides to all of the old 48 states. Using talented local researchers and writers the FWP created an image of America fifty plus years ago. A reprint of the original, South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State is divided into three sections: 19 essays on a variety of topics ranging from history to cookery; detailed descriptions of the 11 towns in the state that had populations of more than 10,000; and 21 remarkably detailed guided tours to all sections of the state. In addition to the original chapters, there are two appendices—updated highway numbers for each tour and a guide to getting off the present Interstate Highway System and picking up the guided tours. South Carolina's Guide is very much a product of its times. The essays and tours mince no words in describing the state's poverty or the reality of a world in which class and race played major roles. For those who have studied and taught South Carolina history, the old Guide has been an indispensable reference work. Parts of it may be dated to some jaded modern eyes; some phrases may be jarring to the post-1954 generation. However, the original South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State was what its cover claimed it to be. It accurately described the state as it was—not as romantics wanted it to be.

Author : Writers' Program (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Arizona
ISBN : UCR:31210001314739

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Arizona, the Grand Canyon State by Writers' Program (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Walter B. Edgar
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1570032556

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South Carolina by Walter B. Edgar Pdf

This is a chronicle of South Carolina describing in human terms 475 years of recorded history in the Palmetto State. Recounting the period from the first Spanish exploration to the end of the Civil War, the author charts South Carolina's rising national and international importance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0872497062

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Georgia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christine Bold
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1578061954

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The WPA Guides by Christine Bold Pdf

In 1935 the FDR administration put 40,000 unemployed artists to work in four federal arts projects. The main contribution of one unit, the Federal Writers Project, was the American Guide Series, a collectively composed set of guidebooks to every state, most regions, and many cities, towns, and villages across the United States. The WPA arts projects were poised on the cusp of the modern bureaucratization of culture. They occurred at a moment when the federal government was extending its reach into citizens' daily lives. The 400 guidebooks the teams produced have been widely celebrated as icons of American democracy and diversity. Clumped together, they manifest a lofty role for the project and a heavy responsibility for its teams of writers. The guides assumed the authority of conceptualizing the national identity. In The WPA Guides: Mapping America Christine Bold closely examines this publicized view of the guides and reveals its flaws. Her research in archival materials reveals the negotiations and conflicts between the central editors in Washington and the local people in the states. Race, region, and gender are taken as important categories within which difference and conflict appear. She looks at the guidebook for each of five distinctively different locations -- Idaho, New York City, North Carolina, Missouri, and U.S. One and the Oregon Trail--to assess the editorial plotting of such issues as gender, race, ethnicity, and class. As regionalists jostled with federal officialdom, the faultlines of the project gaped open. Spotlighting the controversies between federal and state bureaucracies, Bold concludes that the image of America that the WPA fostered is closer to fabrication than to actuality. Christine Bold is director of the Centre for Cultural Studies and an associate professor of English at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.

Author : Walter Edgar
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611171266

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South Carolina in the Modern Age by Walter Edgar Pdf

Originally published in 1992, South Carolina in the Modern Age was the first history of contemporary South Carolina to appear in more than a quarter century and helped establish the reputation of the Palmetto State's premier historian, Walter Edgar, who had not yet begun the two landmark volumes—South Carolina: A History and The South Carolina Encyclopedia—that also bear his name. Available once again, this illustrated volume chronicles transformational events in South Carolina as the state emerged from the devastation that followed the Civil War and progressed through the challenges of the twentieth century. After the Civil War, South Carolina virtually disappeared from the national consciousness and became a historical backwater. But as the nation began to look to the twentieth century, South Carolina stirred once again. It took a world war, the U.S. Supreme Court, and strong-willed leadership to place South Carolina once more within the American mainstream. Edgar has divided this text into four essays, each covering a quarter century of South Carolina history. Each essay has a particular focus: South Carolina's hectic political scene (1891–1916); a period of economic stagnation during which the myths of the state's glorious past were honed and polished (1916–41); the impetus that World War II gave to economic development (1941–66); and social changes wrought by urbanization, industrial development, and desegregation (1966–91). South Carolina in the Modern Age also includes a chronology of state history and a list of suggested readings. More than seventy illustrations, many previously unpublished, add a visual dimension to the story.

Author : Howard Woody,Thomas L. Johnson,Tom Johnson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0738502936

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South Carolina Postcards by Howard Woody,Thomas L. Johnson,Tom Johnson Pdf

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in America's history.

Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780786437795

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New Deal Art in North Carolina by Anita Price Davis Pdf

As the people and economy of the United States struggled to recover during the Great Depression, 42 towns in North Carolina would benefit directly from the $83 million the federal government allocated for public art as part of the New Deal. The result was some of the state's most memorable murals, sculptures, reliefs, paintings, oils, and frescoes, most of which were installed in post offices and courthouses. This book is the only record of all of the North Carolina public art works under the program. It provides in-depth accounts of the works themselves and the artists who created them. Photographs of all of the buildings that originally received the art, the works themselves, and almost all of the 41 artists are provided. An appendix describes federal art projects, 1933-1943. There are detailed footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an index.

Author : Cecily McMillan
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581578843

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Explorer's Guide Charleston, Savannah & Coastal Islands: A Great Destination (Seventh Edition) (Explorer's Great Destinations) by Cecily McMillan Pdf

"By all odds the best all-purpose guide to one of the most magical regions."—John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil In this updated edition, longtime South Carolina resident Cecily McMillan explores the unique intrigue of the Carolina Lowcountry region, examining its rich history, culture, and people and providing authoritative recommendations for accommodations, dining, sightseeing, and all manner of recreational activities here, in Savannah, and on the area’s islands. Whether you gravitate toward historic architecture, gourmet cuisine, bird-watching, or kayaking, you’ll find the most accurate, thorough information on all these and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032987953

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North Carolina by Anonim Pdf

"All of us, at one time or another, have had a strong desire to be able to get in a time machine and be transported magically to an earlier place and time. Science has not yet produced for us such a time machine, but the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a division of the Works Projects Administration, did produce for posterity guides to all of the old 48 states. Using talented local researchers and writers the FWP created an image of America fifty years ago. North Carolina: the WPA Guide to the Old North State is a reprint of the original WPA guide. It contains a calendar of events and sections on the natural setting, Indians, history, Negroes, agriculture, modes of travel, industry and labor, education, religion, sports and recreation, folkways and folklore. A section on the principal cities and towns, their history and interesting facts about the present-day communities, and points of interest are included. A new introduction by William S. Powell, professor of history emeitus at the University of North Carolina, is included."--