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Dr. Walter Edgar, Dr. Peter A. Coclanis, Associate Provost, International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dr. Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of Economics, Professor...
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Live cannonballs from more than 200 years ago continue to be found in Charleston. The relics from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars occasionally wash up on beaches or are found underground. While some...
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In 1860, roughly 60% of the population in Columbia were slaves. 60% of the gross economic capital in South Carolina was in human property. With the growing popularity of the Republican Party, and...
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A group of women with their infants in front of a row of slave cabins on a plantation in the Beaufort Area. Hubbard and Mix photograph from about 1865. From the Penn School Collection. Permission...
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"Orangeburg Courthouse" survived Sherman's march through South Carolina, sketched here for "Leslie's Illustrated Magazine" on February 13, 1865. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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This birds-eye view of Charleston, drawn and engraved in 1853, was widely reproduced in "Harper's Illustrated Weekly" for the next decade; it became the visual image most outsiders had of what the...
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The Plaza in Abbeville, in a postcard view from around 1900. The county seat of Abbeville County (one of the counties or districts created by the state in 1785), the town was named after Abbeville...
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In this segment, Dr. Watson discusses how people figured out ways get around slave laws.
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Dr. Jacobsen talks about the forensic investigation of the Hunley’s crew members, and analyzes the effects of sediment helping preserve their remains. The Hunley project has yielded both scientific...
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In this first segment on the Confederate submarine C.S.S. Hunley, Walter Edgar and Senator Glenn McConnell discuss how finding the submarine disproved all pre-conceived notions about its design...