About Us
Connect with Us
-
Recent Posts
- Using Historic Newspapers for Genealogical Research
- From Socialization to Social Change: Women’s Clubs of South Carolina
- 5 Tips for Undergraduate Research in Chronicling America
- Extra! Extra! Chronicling America Reaches Six Million Pages!
- Matilda Evans
- Emancipation Day
- Restaurant Week: Restaurants Across the State
- Restaurant Week: Wheeler House
- Restaurant Week: The Rise of the Restaurant
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School
Blog Archives
Tag Archives: Sherman
"Our city shall spring from her ashes." A brief history of the Columbia Phoenix.
Craig Keeney, Published Materials Cataloger at the South Caroliniana Library here at USC and one of our Principal Investigators of the SCDNP, has composed several fascinating essays about each of the South Carolina newspapers digitized in Chronicling America. These essays … Continue reading
Sack and Destruction of Columbia
Read William Gilmore Simm’s vivid account of the sack and destruction of Columbia by General Sherman’s army. Readers will find the commentary on saving the South Caroliniana Library and other buildings on the Horseshoe of particular interest. To read the … Continue reading