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The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism

Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1760

by Thomas Little
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

During the late seventeenth century, a heterogeneous mixture of Protestant settlers made their way to the South Carolina lowcountry from both the Old World and elsewhere in the New. Representing a hodgepodge of European religious traditions, they shaped the foundations of a new and distinct plantation...
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State of the Heart

South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love, Volume 2

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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

South Carolina is a state of inspiration as well as recreation. Through its natural beauty, storied heritage, and curious character, the Palmetto State finds its way into the hearts and imaginations of every native, resident, and guest to set foot on its 32,000 square miles of soil. Continuing the...
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Writing South Carolina

Selections from the First High School Writing Contest

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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015

"How should we improve the state of South Carolina?" That invitingly open-ended question served as the basis for the first annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest as the call went out in fall 2013 to juniors and seniors across the Palmetto State, encouraging them to take a stance...
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Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina

The Life of the Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756

by Fred E. Witzig
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

When Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister of the Church of England, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from the devastation of the Yamasee War and still suffering from economic upheaval, political factionalism, and rampant disease. It was also a colony turning enthusiastically...
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Patriots and Indians

Shaping Identity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina

by Jeff W. Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Patriots and Indians examines relationships between elite South Carolinians and Native Americans through the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. Eighteenth-century South Carolinians interacted with Indians in business and diplomatic affairs, as enemies and allies during times of war...
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The Palmetto State

The Making of South Carolina

by Jack Bass, W. Scott Poole
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

As South Carolina enters into the fourth century of its storied existence, the state's captivating, colorful, and controversial history continues to warrant fresh explorations. In this sweeping story of defining episodes in the state's history, accomplished Southern historians Jack Bass and W. Scott...
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Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields

Letters of the Heyward Family, 1862-1871

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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

The Civil War and Reconstruction eras decimated the rice-planting enterprise of the South, and no family experienced the effects of this economic upheaval quite as dramatically as the Heywards of South Carolina, a family synonymous with the wealth of the old rice kingdom in the Palmetto State. Twilight...
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The Day the Johnboat Went up the Mountain

Stories from My Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology

by John Naylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

Combining his skills as a veteran journalist and well-practiced storyteller with his two decades of underwater adventures in maritime archaeology, Carl Naylor offers a colorfully candid account of remarkable discoveries in the Palmetto State's history and prehistory. Through a mix of personal anecdotes...
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by Tom Poland
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015

Truly a book that will captivate newcomers and renew the appreciation of longtime residents, this breathtaking photographic exploration showcases the fullness of the state's regional diversity, natural beauty, and human creativity. Two hundred color photographs record South Carolina's people and places,...
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New Politics in the Old South

Ernest F. Hollings in the Civil Rights Era

by David T. Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

New Politics in the Old South is the first scholarly biography of Ernest F. “Fritz” Hollings, a key figure in South Carolina and national political developments in the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout his career Hollings was renowned for his willingness to voice unpleasant truths,...
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The African American Odyssey of John Kizell

A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland

by Kevin G. Lowther
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

The inspirational story of John Kizell celebrates the life of a West African enslaved as a boy and brought to South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution. Fleeing his owner, Kizell served with the British military in the Revolutionary War, began a family in the Nova Scotian wilderness, then...
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A Palmetto Boy

Civil War-Era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman

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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is forever linked to Palmetto State history, but not all of its members have yet had their stories told. James Adams Tillman (1842–1866) never had the chance to become a governor or U.S. senator like his younger brother "Pitchfork" Ben or...
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Writing South Carolina, Volume 2

Selections from the Second Annual High School Writing Contest

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

“All of you who contributed to this book write much better than I did in high school.” That remarkable observation was made by Pat Conroy in the foreword to the first collection of student writing generated by the South Carolina High School Writing Contest, and it embodies the contest’s goals:...
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Wil Lou Gray

The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal

by Mary Macdonald Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

In Wil Lou Gray: The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal, Mary Macdonald Ogden examines the first fifty years of the life and work of South Carolina's Wil Lou Gray (1883-1984), an uncompromising advocate of public and private programs to improve education, health, citizen participation,...
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