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The history of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the longest and most diverse of any community in the United States, spanning hundreds of years of physical settlement beginning in 1670. Charleston was one of leading cities in the South from the colonial era to the Civil War in the 1860s.
Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association: 1997 (1997) online Archived 2021-10-27 at the Wayback Machine. "The South: South Carolina: Charleston", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M; Walter J. Fraser Jr. (2000). "Charleston". In Paul Finkelman (ed.). Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth ...
Judith Smith Ladson (May 1766 – September 4, 1820) was an American heiress and socialite who served as the Second Lady of South Carolina. A member of the colonial planter class, she was the daughter of the slave trader Benjamin Smith and the wife of the politician James Ladson, who served as Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.
Nicholas Butler's recently published monograph, Votaries of Apollo: the St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766–1820 (2007), represents the first scholarly effort to reconstruct the details of the group's 54 years of concert activity. It is based upon extant archival materials from the late ...
The paper's competition was the South Carolina Gazette (founded 1732) and South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (founded 1765), all located in Charleston. [6] Wells' paper was the only one of the three to support the Stamp Act. [7] But it was also the only paper in the state to publish the entirety of the Declaration of Independence in ...
(Harvard University Press) 1963, a major scholarly history. Brown, Richard Maxwell. Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism (Oxford UP, 1975) pp. 67–90. Johnson, D. Andrew. “The Regulation Reconsidered: Shared Grievances in the Colonial Carolinas” South Carolina Historical Magazine 114#2, (2013), pp ...
A history of the University of South Carolina, 1940-2000 ( U of South Carolina Press, 2001) online. Meriwether, Colyer. History of Higher Education in South Carolina: With a Sketch of the Free School System. 1888 (US Government Printing Office, 1889) online .
The South Carolina Historical Magazine, first published in 1900, is the only scholarly periodical entirely devoted to South Carolina history. In 1985 the Society began publication of the Carologue, a quarterly general-interest magazine of articles, illustrations, and photographs on state history, genealogy, preservation, and Society news.