Download or read book Columbia and Richland County written by John Hammond Moore and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of South Carolina's heartland told from the prospective of a founding father, a plantation mistress, an African-American politician, an editor, a mayor, and other local residents.
Download or read book Columbia South Carolina written by Vennie Deas-Moore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Carolina's capital city enjoys a strong African-American presence, one that has had considerable influence on the growth and development of Columbia's commerce and culture since the city's creation in the late 1700s. The challenges of the antebellum South, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights era, and even the present have shaped a vibrant and dynamic black community, which supplies a wealth of leaders for the city, state, and nation.
Download or read book Sherman and the Burning of Columbia written by Marion B. Lucas and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into who burned South Carolina's capital in 1865 Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865? Even before the embers had finished smoldering, Confederates and Federals accused each other of starting the blaze, igniting a controversy that has raged for more than a century. Marion B. Lucas sifts through official reports, newspapers, and eyewitness accounts, and the evidence he amasses debunks many of the myths surrounding the tragedy. Rather than writing a melodrama with clear heroes and villains, Lucas tells a more complex and more human story that details the fear, confusion, and disorder that accompanied the end of a brutal war. Lucas traces the damage not to a single blaze but to a series of fires—preceded by an equally unfortunate series of military and civilian blunders—that included the burning of cotton bales by fleeing Confederate soldiers. This edition includes a new foreword by Anne Sarah Rubin, professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and America.
Download or read book Columbia South Carolina written by Alexia Jones Helsley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbia sits on hills overlooking the Congaree, Saluda and Broad Rivers. The name evokes sanctuary and the American spirit. Its central location in the state makes it the meeting place of the Upstate and the Lowcountry. The all-American city sprang from wilderness, frame buildings and unpaved streets and valiantly responded to the challenges of change. The city was created by the legislature to be the capital and reflects the "ambitions and fortunes" of South Carolina. Columbia is a diverse city that serves as an educational incubator, a magnet for immigrants, a military center and a place to celebrate the arts. Follow author Alexia Jones Helsley as she weaves together the strands of Columbia's long and eventful past.
Download or read book Remembering Columbia written by John M. Sherrer III, Historic Columbia and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Columbia, South Carolina, is very much a tale of two cities. Founded as a political compromise, forged by an economy shackled by slavery, and physically vanquished by fire, the Palmetto State's second capital became a proving ground for a new society less than a century after its establishment. During the course of the next 100 years, Columbians--new and old, black and white, rich and poor--would physically transform their city in ways that reflected their needs, aspirations, fears, and wherewithal. Remembering Columbia is a visual road map that merges images with accounts of people, sites, and events pulled from historical newspapers, diaries, and ephemera. Building upon the efforts of previous generations, this account explores South Carolina's capital city from its early years through the mid-20th century in ways previously underdeveloped or altogether unrepresented. The result is an intriguing detective story that will be enriching, surprising, and compelling to life-long residents, newcomers, and visitors alike."
Download or read book Columbia South Carolina written by David C. Sennema and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Columbia, South Carolina: A Postcard History, Dave and Marty Sennema have assembled an unprecedented collection of picture postcards to create a retrospective of the area from the early 1900s through the 1950s. Here you will find dramatic images of businesses, street scenes, hotels, office buildings, and homes. Even more fascinating are the buildings which have, over the years, been recycled and used to house various businesses and educational institutions.
Download or read book A History of the University of South Carolina 1940 2000 written by Henry H. Lesesne and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the transformation of one of the nation's oldest public institutions of higher learning into a modern research university The history of the modern University of South Carolina (originally chartered as South Carolina College in 1801) describes the significant changes in the state and in the character of higher education in South Carolina. World War II, the civil rights struggle, and the revolution in research and South Carolina's economy transformed USC from a small state university in 1939, with a student body of less than 2,000 and an annual budget of $725,000, to a 1990 population of more than 25,000 and an annual budget of $454 million. Then the University was little more than a small liberal arts college; today the university is at the head of a statewide system of higher education with eight branch campuses. Henry H. Lesesne recounts the historic transformation of USC into a modern research university, grounding that change in the context of the modernization of South Carolina and the South in general. The half century from 1940 to 1990 wrought great changes in South Carolina and its most prominent university. State and national politics, the challenges of funding modern higher educations, and the explosive growth of intercollegiate sports are among other elements of the University that were transformed. Lesesne describes with candor and impressive research how the University of South Carolina and, indeed, all of the state's higher education system emerged from a past limited by racism and poverty and began to measure its aspirations by national educational standards.
Download or read book A Guide to Columbia written by Jane Kealhofer Simons and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book South Carolina written by and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Burning of Columbia S C written by Daniel Heyward Trezevant and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Columbia Capital City of South Carolina 1786 1936 written by Helen Kohn Hennig and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering Columbia South Carolina written by Miles Richards and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Columbia's history is brimming with characters whose exploits have shaped and enriched the city's evolution. This collection reveals the intriguing but lesser known people and events in Columbia's past. With a welcoming style, Richards shows why Columbia has earned its reputation as a history-rich Southern city."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Columbia South Carolina written by Alexia Helsley and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbia sits on hills overlooking the Congaree, Saluda and Broad Rivers. The name evokes sanctuary and the American spirit. Its central location in the state makes it the meeting place of the Upstate and the Lowcountry. The all-American city sprang from wilderness, frame buildings and unpaved streets and valiantly responded to the challenges of change. The city was created by the legislature to be the capital and reflects the "ambitions and fortunes" of South Carolina. Columbia is a diverse city that serves as an educational incubator, a magnet for immigrants, a military center and a place to celebrate the arts. Follow author Alexia Jones Helsley as she weaves together the strands of Columbia's long and eventful past.
Download or read book The Improvement of Columbia South Carolina Report to the Civic League Columbia South Carolina written by S. C. Civic League Columbia and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... estimates excessive, and in this we are confirmed by Mr. Parker himself. It seems probable that the figures might be reduced one0third or even one-half, and still be safe. f The average per capita cost in the twenty-one largest southern cities is but $15.78 (1903). XMuch of the waste land about our towns is already grown up with native trees and vines. I have been arguing for years that a park in its planting need not be costly. We need to use only the vegetation which is native to Iowa to make our town park as beautiful as any in the land, indeed more beautiful than it can be made in any other way. Our own vegetation, our oaks, our lindens, our hazels, our sumacs, our wild grapes, and creepers did once clothe these hills and banks with summer beauty, and autumn glory, and the plants will make all such locations splendid again if we but afford them a chance. Minneapolis did not ask for tree ferns and palm trees to make the parks the pride of the town and of the Mississippi Valley; she has used conditions as she found them, with results we see.--The Present Status of Iowa Parks, Thomas H. Macbride. Playgrounds should not only be located where the ground is fairly level and suitable for games and gymnasium apparatus, but in the centers of populous districts and in such relation to each other that every child has ready access to one within at least a few blocks of his home. And so with athletic fields, squares, small parks, large scenic parks, historic or forest reservations, each should be selected with a view to its especial fitness to serve a special purpose, bearing in mind convenience and accessibility. Public grounds should meet the needs of all classes--from the baby who first sees the park in a baby carriage, and...
Download or read book Walsh s Columbia South Carolina City Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revised Ordinances of the City of Columbia S C written by Columbia (S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
