South Carolina History
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This week on Walter Edgar's Journal , our third program on South Carolina Between the World Wars ,... -
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When the stock market crashed in 1929, ushering in the Great Depression, South Carolina was already... -
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Credit SC Public Radio "H" is for H.L. Hunley . On the night of February 17, 1864, the Confederate... -
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Following World War I, South Carolina’s economy collapsed. The post-World-War-I drop in demand for... -
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Credit SC Public Radio "F" is for Fairfield County (687 square miles; 2010 population 23,838)... -
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Credit SC Public Radio "E" is for Earle, Joseph Haynsworth (1847 - 1897). U.S. senator. A native of... -
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Credit S.C. State Since its founding in 1896, South Carolina State University has provided... -
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The Quaker and the Gamecock: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the Revolutionary War in the South
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As the newly appointed commander of the Southern Continental Army in December 1780, Nathanael... -
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Roxana Robinson Credit Beowulf Sheehan/Post and Courier Books In Dawson’s Fall (2019, MacMillan), a...
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SC Hall of Fame
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Reconstruction 360
It's 1865 and the Civil War is over. On the coast of South Carolina, a family of freed people has established a farm. ...but the promise of 40 acres and a mule is about to be broken.
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