Selected Readings in South Carolina History

General

Edgar, Walter. South Carolina: A History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Guess, William Francis. South Carolina: Annals of Pride and Protest. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.
Jones, Lewis P. South Carolina: A Synoptic History for Laymen. Lexington, SC: Sandlapper Press, 1978.
Kovacik, Charles F. and Winberry, John J. South Carolina: The Making of a Landscape. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.
Lander, Ernest McPherson, Jr. South Carolina: An Illustrated History of the Palmetto State. Northridge, CA: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1988.
Rogers, George C., Jr. and Taylor, C. James. A South Carolina Chronology, 1497-1992. Second Edition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
Works Progress Administration. South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State. Reprint, with new introduction and appendices by Walter B. Edgar. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
Wallace, David D. The History of South Carolina, 4 vols. New York: The American Historical Society, Inc. 1934-1935
Wright, Louis B. South Carolina: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1976.

Histories of Particular Periods

Proprietary and Colonial Periods

Bargar, B. D. Royal South Carolina, 1719-1763. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970.
McCrady, Edward. The History of South Carolina Under the Proprietary Government, 1670-1719. New York: Macmillan Company, 1897.
______. The History of South Carolina Under the Royal Government, 1719-1776. New York: Macmillan Company, 1899.
Meriwether, Robert L. The Expansion of South Carolina, 1729-1765. Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, 1940.
Milling, Chapman J. Red Carolinians. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940.
Sirmans, M. Eugene. Colonial South Carolina: A Political History, 1663-1763. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966.
Weir, Robert M. Colonial South Carolina: A History. Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

Revolutionary Era

Babits, Lawrence E. A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.
Edgar, Walter B. Partisans and Redcoats: the Southern Conflict that Turned the Tide of the American Revolution. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
Hilborn, Nat and Sam. Battleground of Freedom: South Carolina in the Revolution. Columbia: Sandlapper Press, Inc., 1970.
Lambert, Robert S. South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987.
Lipscomb, Terry W. South Carolina Becomes a State: The Road from Colony to Independence, 1765-1776. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1976.
Lumpkin, Henry. From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981.
McCrady, Edward. The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1775-1780. New York: Macmillan Company, 1901.
______. The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1780-1783. New York: Macmillan Company, 1902.
Nadelhaft, Jerome J. The Disorders of War: The Revolution in South Carolina. Orono: University of Maine at Orono Press, 1981.
Pancake, John S. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
Weir, Robert M. 'A Most Important Epocha': The Coming of the Revolution in South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970.

Early National Period

Klein, Rachel N. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Rogers, George C., Jr. Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
Schaper, William A. Sectionalism and Representation in South Carolina. Reprint, with a new foreword by E. M. Lander, Jr., Clemson University. New York: Da Capo Press, 1968.
Singer, Charles G. South Carolina in the Confederation. Philadelphia, PA: n. p., 1941.
Starobin, Robert S., ed. Denmark Vesey: The Slave Conspiracy of 1822, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1970.
Wolfe, J. Harold. Jeffersonian Democracy in South Carolina. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940.

Antebellum Period

Coit, Margaret L. John C. Calhoun: American Portrait. Reprint, with a new introduction by Clyde N. Wilson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
Ford, Lacy K., Jr. Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Freehling, William W. Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
Hudson, Larry E., Jr. To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1997
Lander, Ernest M., Jr. Reluctant Imperialists: Calhoun, The South Carolinians, and the Mexican War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
Meyer, Jack Allen. South Carolina in the Mexican War: A History of the Palmetto Regiment of Volunteers, 1846-1917. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1996.
Smith, Philip M. Economic Readjustment of an Old Cotton State: South Carolina, 1820-1860. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1958.
Taylor, Rosser H. Antebellum South Carolina: A Social and Cultural History. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1942.

Civil War Period

Barrett, John G. Sherman's March Through the Carolinas. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1956.
Burton, E. Milby. The Siege of Charleston, 1861-1865. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970.
Capers, Ellison. Confederate Military History Extended Edition: Vol. VI, South Carolina. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1987.
Carse, Robert. Department of the South: Hilton Head Island in the Civil War. Columbia: The State Printing Company, 1961.
Cauthen, Charles E. South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1950.
Channing, Steven A. Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
Lucas, Marion Brunson. Sherman and the Burning of Columbia. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976.
McCaslin, Richard B. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of South Carolina in the Civil War. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
Rose, Willie L. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1964.

Reconstruction and Reunion

Bleser, Carol K. Rothrock. The Promised Land: The History of the South Carolina Land Commission, 1869-1890. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1969.
Cooper, William J. The Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877-1890. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.
Jarrell, Hampton M. Wade Hampton and the Negro. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1949.
Simkins, Francis B. and Robert H. Woody. South Carolina During Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1932.
Tindall, George B. South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952.
Williams, Lou Falkner. The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Williamson, Joel. After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1965.
Zuczek, Richard. State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

Modern Period

Burts, Robert Milton. Richard Irvine Manning and the Progressive Movement in South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1974.
Carlton, David L. Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880-1920. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
Cohodas, Nadine. Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Edgar, Walter B. South Carolina in the Modern Age. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992.Hayes, Jack Irby, Jr. South Carolina and the New Deal. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
Lander, Ernest M. History of South Carolina, 1865-1960. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970.
Robertson, David. Sly and Able: A Political Biography of James F. Byrnes. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.
Simkins, Francis Butler. Pitchfork Ben Tillman: South Carolinian. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.
Simon, Bryant. A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Tindall, George B. Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.
Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1951.

Bibliographies

Cote, Richard N. Local and Family History in South Carolina: A Bibliography. Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1981.
Easterby, J. Harold. Guide to the Study and Reading of South Carolina History: A General Classified Bibliography. 1950. Reprint with supplement by Noel Polk. Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 1975.
Jones, Lewis P. Books and Articles on South Carolina History. Second Edition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
Moore, John H. Research Materials in South Carolina: A Guide. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1967.
Turnbull, Robert J. Bibliography of South Carolina, 1563-1950. 6 vols. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1956-1960.

Compiled by Paul Begley