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From Socialization to Social Change: Women’s Clubs of South Carolina
Throughout the 1800s, women in the United States began to push the societal boundaries placed upon them by moving outside of the home. Women started to become more outspoken and organized, thus making them more visible. Even before the Civil … Continue reading
Matilda Evans
In honor of Black History Month, SCDNP looks at influential people and events in the African American community of South Carolina throughout the month of February. At a time when both women and African Americans were prohibited from doing many … Continue reading
Emancipation Day
In honor of Black History Month, SCDNP looks at influential people and events in the African American community of South Carolina throughout the month of February. On January 1, 1863, the dawn of the third year of a gruesome civil … Continue reading
Restaurant Week: Restaurants Across the State
One of South Carolina’s newer events is Restaurant Week: a state-wide event held over eleven days that showcases the distinct and exciting restaurant scenes found across the state. As participating restaurants offer special deals during this time, attendees have the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chronicling America, Food history, restaurant history, South Carolina
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Restaurant Week: The Rise of the Restaurant
One of South Carolina’s newer events is Restaurant Week: a state-wide event held over eleven days that showcases the distinct and exciting restaurant scenes found across the state. As participating restaurants offer special deals during this time, attendees have the … Continue reading
Schofield Normal and Industrial School
The end of the Civil War ushered in a time of restoration in the Southern part of the United States. During this era, many people from the Northern part of the country felt the desire to move down South and … Continue reading
The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month: Remembering Armistice Day
Although the United States had only been directly involved for a year and a half, World War I had been going on for over four years by the time Germany signed a final armistice ending the war on November 11, … Continue reading
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Tagged Armistice Day, military, veterans, Veterans Day, Woodrow Wilson, World War I
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The Election of 1912
100 years ago this week, people were hitting the polls in what some historians consider one of the most influential and memorable presidential elections of United States history. Unlike what we are used to today, the 1912 election boasted not … Continue reading
Forget Your Troubles and Come to the Fair
October is here and for many South Carolinians, it’s the best time of year: the air starts to feel just a touch cooler, football season is well underway, and one of the state’s biggest events takes place. That’s right, the … Continue reading
Kudzu: The Vine that Ate the South
It is hard to imagine driving down a highway in the south and not seeing swaths of kudzu carpeting eroded gullies and forests. Although one would think it a permanent feature of the southern landscape, the kudzu vine was not … Continue reading
Voices in the Wilderness: Southerners who Opposed Secession
Each April on the anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War, many romanticize the Confederacy and the Lost Cause. Given the extensive coverage of famous battles, generals, and the devastating loss of life, we might be forgiven for … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Elizabeth van Lew, James L. Petigru, Sam Houston, secession, Southern Unionists, Union Spy
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Watch Free Webinar on The Power of Digitization: Digitizing Historical SC Newspapers at the SCDNP
******* Have you heard about the SC Digital Newspaper Program (SCDNP) and would like to know more about what we do and which historical SC newspapers we are digitizing? Would you like to learn more about how to search and … Continue reading
Exploring the Progressive Era in Historical SC Newspapers: 1900-1920s
The Progressive Era The Progressive Era began around 1900 and continued into the late 1920s and marked sweeping changes in social issues, technology, and government involvement in everyday people’s lives. Social issues such as child labor, women’s suffrage, prohibition, the … Continue reading
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Tagged child labor, illiteracy, Progressive Era, suffrage, World War I
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Finding that Needle in the Haystack: The Power of Full Text Searching in Chronicling America
Imagine scrolling through the microfilm reels, at your local library, hoping to uncover that one small mention on your research topic: a name, an event, a place. Perhaps, discovering that one piece of information takes hours, days, or more…Now, imagine, … Continue reading
South Carolina State House Under Construction:1854-1907
Did you know that it took 53 years (1854- 1907) and six different architects to complete the construction of the South Carolina State House? That originally a square tower, rather than a dome, was to top the statehouse? Or, that … Continue reading
Celebrating Hanukkah in Historical S.C. Newspapers
There are several interesting articles in historical S.C. newspapers that describe the significance, and interesting history, of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. As you might know, S.C. has a long and proud Jewish heritage. Its first Jewish settlers immigrated to … Continue reading
This Kid’s Going Places! Strom Thurmond’s Childhood in Historical S.C. Newspapers
Strom Thurmond, the iconic South Carolina politician who lived to 100 years old and who died in 2003 shortly after retiring as United States Senator, was born 109 years ago today. A lot is known about Thurmond’s 75 years in … Continue reading
Mama Don’t Dance and Your Daddy Don’t Rock N’ Roll
I happened across several amusing articles in Chronicling America, on the sins of dancing, in 19th century historical South Carolina newspapers. Interestingly, each of these articles was published in the Keowee courier (Pickens, S.C.), in upstate South Carolina over a … Continue reading