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From Whence They Came Gullah is the blending of all the cultures that came together during that horrible time in human history called the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The connection between Barbados and...
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Dr. Kathryn Silva discusses how the trend of women leaving the house to find work took off in the early 1900's. Dr. Silva also analyzes how the lives of white women differentiated from the lives of...
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Dr. Courtney Tollison Hartness discusses how The Great War affected South Carolina's upstate economically, and how the conflict helped modernize the region.
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Dr. Angela Jill Cooley discusses the reasons behind food rationing, and the temporary wartime prohibition during World War I. Dr. Cooley also talks about the establishment of government food...
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Dr. Kathryn Silva discusses why African Americans were not as widespread in the textile industry compared to Whites in the early 1900's.
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Mann-Simons Partial Family Tree Mann-Simons Family Portraits Case of Excavated Artifacts, Including A Rubber "Bouncy" Ball Photograph of John Lucius Simons, Sr.'s Sons: John Lucius Simons, Jr. (Left)...
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The Mann-Simons Site, home to the same entrepreneurial African American family for nearly 130 years, traces the journey of Columbia’s African American community from enslavement through urban renewal...
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The Mann-Simons Site, home to the same entrepreneurial African American family for nearly 130 years, traces the journey of Columbia’s African American community from enslavement through urban renewal...
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Throughout Richard Roberts’ works, the image of “The New Negro” is personified; that after years of slavery, there are now new opportunities, along with freedom, and upwards mobility. Roberts loved...
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The Roberts family always wanted to do something with the historic photographs they had on hand. With the cooperation of both the Roberts family and the Columbia Museum of Art, the book A True...