After seventy-two arduous years, the fate of the suffrage movement and its masterwork, the Nineteenth Amendment, rested not only on one state, Tennessee, but on the shoulders of a single man: twenty-four-year-old legislator Harry Burn.
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.
WHY A 56-MILE WALK FOR FREEDOM IN 1965 STILL CHALLENGES AMERICA TODAYTHE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 WAS THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, FOREVER CHANGING POLITICS IN AMERICA.
A study of early transatlantic trade in South Carolina that exposes the divisive complexity that led to warLondon's "e;Carolina traders,"e; a little-known group of transatlantic merchants, played a pivotal but historically neglected role in the rise of tensions in the South Carolina lowcountry.
A fascinating look at the private lives of prosperous landowners in antebellum South CarolinaOffering a richly textured picture of early national South Carolina, Richardson-Sinkler Connections includes more than 150 letters and documents left by the prominent Richardson and Sinkler families, who lived in the Santee region between Charleston and Columbia.
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time.
With more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of the American Revolution, this definitive scholarly reference covers the causes, course, and consequences of the war and the political, social, and military origins of the nation.
The first comprehensive narrative of the South Carolina state capitol and the history enshrined in its monuments from 1787 to the presentThe South Carolina State House grounds are a work in progress-a cultural landscape of human-built and natural components connected physically, conceptually, and aesthetically.
A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first-person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors.
In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South.
A study of how South Carolina's federal district courts were central to achieving and solidifying gains during the civil rights movementAs the first comprehensive study of one state's federal district courts during the long civil rights movement, The Slow Undoing argues for a reconsideration of the role of the federal courts in the civil rights movement.
Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement.
An odyssey from pre-Civil War Charleston to post-World War II Minneapolis through Jewish immigrants' eyesThe histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in Ellis Island and northeastern cities.
Akenson argues that, despite the popular conception of the Irish as a city people, those who settled in Ontario were primarily rural and small-town dwellers.
The "e;First Lady of American Folklore"e; explores the supernatural side of the Civil War with chilling tales of spectral soldiers and haunted battlefields.
The South Caroliniana Library, located on the historic Horseshoe of the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia, is one of the premier research archives and special collections repositories in South Carolina and the American Southeast.
West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba seeks to explain how a series of historical events that occurred in West Africa from the mid-1790s - including Afonja's rebellion, the Owu wars, the Fulani-led jihad, and the migrations to Egbaland - had an impact upon life in cities and plantations in western Cuba and Bahia.
Collected letters of a Confederate officer and his family detail daily life and loss on the battlefieldHope, sacrifice, and restoration: throughout the American Civil War and its aftermath, the Foster family endured all of these in no small measure.
The Making of Barack Obama: The Politics of Persuasion provides the first comprehensive treatment of why Obama's rhetorical strategies were so effective during the 2008 presidential campaign, during the first four years of his presidency, and once again during the 2012 presidential campaign.
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr.
The social critic and Set the Night on Fire co-author tackles the fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this 2007 collection of radical essays.
