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Recommended Readings in South Carolina History

READINGS IN SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY (by Walter Edgar and A.V. Huff)

 

Barck, Oscar T., Jr., and Hugh T. Lefler. Colonial America. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958.

 

Bass, Jack and Marilyn Thompson. Ol’ Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond. Longstreet Press, 1998.

 

Bass, Jack. Porgy Comes Home: South Carolina After Three Hundred Years. Columbia: the R. L. Bryan Company, 1972.

 

Bleser, Carol. Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

 

Blum, John M., Edmund S. Morgan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Kenneth M. Stampp, and C. Vann Woodward. The National Experience: A History of the United States. 2nd ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968.

 

Bowen, Catherine D. Miracle at Philadelphia. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1966.

 

Bridenbaugh, Carl & Roberta Bridenbaugh. No Peace Beyond the Line: The English in the Caribbean, 1624-1690. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

 

Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

 

Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness: Urban Life in America 1743-1776. New York: Capricorn Books, 1964.

 

Bridenbaugh, Carl. Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South. New York: Atheneum, 1971.

 

Brown, Richard M. The South Carolina Regulators. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1963.

 

Bryan, Wright. Clemson, An Informal History of the University, 1889-1979. Columbia: R. L. Bryan, 1979.

 

Burke, Lewis W. and James L. Underwood. At Freedom’s Door: African American Founding fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina. Columbia: USC Press, 2000.

 

Burts, Robert M. Richard Irvine Manning and the Progressive Movement in South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1974.

 

Byrnes, James F. All in One Lifetime. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.

 

Carlton , David L. Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880-1920. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

 

Cauthen, Charles. South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1950.

 

Channing, Steven A. Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.

 

Chesnutt, David R., and Clyde N. Wilson, eds. The Meaning of South Carolina History: Essays in Honor of George C. Rogers, Jr . Columbia: USC Press, 1991.

 

Clark, Septima P. with LeGette Blythe. Echo in My Soul. New York: Dutton, 1962.

 

Coclanis, Peter A. The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

 

Cohen, Hennig. The South Carolina Gazette, 1732-1775. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1953.

 

Cohodas, Nadine. Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change. Macon, Ga.: Mercer university Press, 1993.

 

Coit, Margaret. John C. Calhoun: American Portrait. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.

 

Coit, Margaret L. Mr. Baruch: The Man, The Myth, The Eighty Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.

 

Cooper, William J., Jr. The Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877-1890. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.

 

Davidson, Chalmers G. The Last Foray, The South Carolina Planters of 1860: A Sociological Study. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1971.

 

Dunn, Richard S. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.

 

Dusinberre, William. Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

 

Edgar, Walter B. Fifty Years: A History of Santee Cooper. Columbia: The R. L. Bryan Company, 1984.

 

Edgar, Walter B. South Carolina: A History. Columbia: USC Press, 1998.

 

Edgar, Walter B. Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide of the American Revolution. New York: William Morrow, 2001.

 

Edgar, Walter B. ed., South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.

 

Edmunds, John B., Jr.. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Francis W. Pickens and the Politics of Destruction 1986.

 

Egerton, Douglas R. He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 2001.

 

Elzas, Barnett A. The Jews of South Carolina. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1905.

 

Faust, Drew G. James. Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

 

Fields, Mamie G. with Karen Fields. Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir. New York: The Free Press, 1983.

 

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

 

Ford, Lacy K., Jr. The Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

 

Freehling, William W. Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.

 

Gordon, Asa H. Sketches of Negro Life and History in South Carolina. 2nd ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1971.

 

Graham, Cole Blease Jr., and William V. Moore. South Carolina Politics and Government. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

 

Greene, Jack P. The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963.

 

Hagy, James W. This Happy Land: The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993.

 

Hatey, Tom. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Era of Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

 

Hayes, Jack Irby, Jr. South Carolina and the New Deal. Columbia: USC Press, 2001.

 

Heyward, Duncan Clinch. Seed From Madagascar. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937.

 

Hirsch, Arthur H. The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina. Durham: Duke University Press, 1928.

 

A History of the Lutheran Church in South Carolina . Columbia: R. L. Bryan, 1971.

 

Hollis, Daniel W. University of South Carolina, Volume I: South Carolina College. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952.

 

Horne, Paul and Patricia Klein. South Carolina : The History of an American State. Atlanta: Clairmont Press, 2000

 

Howe, George. History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina. Columbia: R. W. Gibbes, 1858.

 

Huff, Archie Vernon. Greenville: The History of the City and County in the South Carolina Piedmont. Columbia: USC Press, 1995

 

Huff, Archie Vernon. The History of South Carolina in the Building of the Nation. Greenville: Alester G. Furman, 1990.

 

Hurmence, Belinda, ed., Before Freedom, 48 Oral Histories of Former North and South Carolina Slaves. New York: Mentor, 1990.

 

Johnson, Michael P. and James L. Roark. Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1984.

 

Johnson, Thomas K. and Phillip C. Dunn. A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936. Columbia: Bruccoli Clark, 1986.

 

Jones, Lewis P. South Carolina: One of the Fifty States. Orangeburg: Sandlapper Publishing, Inc., 1985.

 

Joyner, Charles. Down By The River side. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.

 

Kantrowitz, Stephen. Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

 

Key, V. O., Jr. Southern Politics in State and Nation. New York: Vintage Books, 1949.

 

Koger, Larry. Black Slaveowners: Free Black Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860. Columbia: USC Press, 1995.

 

Kovacik, Charles F. and John J. Winberry. South Carolina: A Geography. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987.

 

Lander, Ernest M., Jr. A History of South Carolina, 1865-1960. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970.

 

Lander, Ernest M. Reluctant Imperialists: Calhoun, the South Carolinians, and the Mexican War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

 

Lander, Ernest M. and Robert Ackerman, eds. Perspectives in South Carolina History: The First Three Hundred Years. Columbia: USC Press, 1973.

 

LeConte, Emma. When the World Ended. Ed. by Earl S. Miers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.

 

Littlefield, Daniel C. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

 

Lofton, John. Insurrection in South Carolina: The Turbulent World of Denmark Vessey. Yellow Springs: The Antioch Press, 1964.

 

Lumpkin, H. Henry. From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981.

 

Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Ersatz in the Confederacy. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952.

 

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

 

Meleney, John C. The Public Life of Aedanus Burke. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.

 

Meriwether, Robert E. L. The Expansion of South Carolina, 1729-1865. Kingsport: Southern Publishing Company, 1940.

 

Miller, Edward. Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls, from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915. Columbia: USC Press, 1995.

 

Moore , John H. Columbia and Richland County: A South Carolina Community. Columbia: USC Press, 1993.

 

Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

 

Morgan, Richard M. and Helen S. The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution. New York: Collier Books, 1967.

 

Nelson, Jack and Jack Bass. The Orangeburg Massacre. New York: World Publishing, 1970.

 

Neuffer, Claude and Irene Neuffer. Correct Mispronunciations of Some South Carolina Names. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1983.

 

Newby, I. A. Black Carolinians: A History of Blacks in South Carolina from 1895 to 1968. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973.

 

Olwell, Robert. Masters, Slaves and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1740-1790. Cornell University Press, 1998.

 

Payne, Daniel A. History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Arno Press, 1969.

 

Powers, Bernard. Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885. Columbia: USC Press, 1994.

 

Prince, Eldred E., Jr. Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2000.

 

Robertson, Ben. Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1942.

 

Robertson, David. Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America’s largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It. Vintage, 2000.

 

Robertson, David. Sly and Able: A Political Biography of James F. Byrnes. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1994.

 

Rogers, George C., Jr. Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.

 

Rose, Willie Lee. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

 

Rosengarten, Theodore. Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter. New York: William Morrow, 1986.

 

Salley, A. S. The History of Orangeburg County. Orangeburg: R. L. Berry, 1898.

 

Shipps, Albert M. The History of Methodism in South Carolina. Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1883.

 

Silver, Timothy. New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonials, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

 

Simkins, Francis B. Pitchfork Ben Tillman: South Carolinian. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1944.

 

Spruill, Julia Cherry. Women’s Life and Work in the Southern Colonies . New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1972.

 

Thomas, Albert S. The Episcopal Church in South Carolina . Columbia: R. L. Bryan, 1957.

 

Tindall, George B. America: A Narrative History . New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1984.

 

Tindall, George B. South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 . Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952.

 

Townsend, Leah. South Carolina Baptists, 1670-1825 . Florence: Florence Printing Company, 1935.

 

Waddell, Gene. Indians of the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1562-1751 . Columbia: Southern Studies Program, 1980.

 

Walsh, Richard. Charleston ’s Sons of Liberty: A Study of the Artisans 1763-1789 . Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1959.

 

Weiner, Marli F. Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880 . Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 1998.

 

Weir, Robert M. Colonial South Carolina: A History . Millwood: KTO Press, 1983.

 

Wikramanayke, Marina. A World in Shadow: The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina . Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973.

 

Wiegeley, Russell F. The Partisan War: The South Carolina Campaign of 1780-1782 . Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970.

 

Williamson, Joel. After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.

 

Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina From 1670 through the Stono Rebellion . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

 

Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow . 2nd rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

 

Wright, Gavin. Old South, New South . New York: Basis Cooks, 1986.

 

Woodmason, Charles. The Carolina Backcountry on the Eye of the Revolution. Ed. by Thomas Hooker . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953.

 

Zuczek, Richard. State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina . Columbia: USC Press, 1996.



 
 
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