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This is a bibliography of South Carolina history. It contains English language (including translations) books and mainstream academic journal articles published after World War II.

Inclusion criteria

This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all works about South Carolina history. It is limited to works primarily or substantially about South Carolina history, published by state level or higher academic universities, mainstream national level publishers, or authored by recognized subject matter experts.[a]

Works about the colonial Carolinias[b] are included. Works regarding historical geography and South Carolina's natural history are included, but works about municipal and local history are excluded unless they have material applicable to the entire state. Notes are provided for annotations and citations for reviews in academic journals when helpful.

Citation style

This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates. References to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to South Carolina history are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.

If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included if possible.

When listing works with titles or names published with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.

General works[edit]

  • Edgar, W. (1998). South Carolina: A History. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Tullos, A. (1989). Habits of industry: White culture and the transformation of the Carolina Piedmont. University of North Carolina Press.[1][2][3]
  • Wallace, D. D. (1951). South Carolina: A Short History, 1520–1948. University of North Carolina Press.[4][5][6]
  • Wright, L. B. (1976). South Carolina: A Bicentennial History. W. W. Norton & Company.

Chronological[edit]

Colonial era[edit]

Revolutionary era[edit]

  • Andrew Jr., R. (2012). Andrew Pickens: South Carolina Patriot in the Revolutionary War. McFarland & Company.
  • Andrew, R. (2017). The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder (Illustrated edition). The University of North Carolina Press.
  • Brannon, R. (2016). From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists. University of South Carolina Press.[12][13][14]
  • Chaplin, J. E. (1991). Creating a Cotton South in Georgia and South Carolina, 1760–1815. Journal of Southern History, 57(2), 171–200.
  • Farley, M. F. (1978). The South Carolina Negro in the American Revolution, 1775-1783. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 79(2), 75–86.
  • Gordon, J. W. (2002). South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History. University of South Carolina Press.[15][16][17]
  • Lander, E. M. Jr. (1956). The South Carolinians at the Philadelphia Convention, 1787. South Carolina Historical Magazine, 57(3), 134–155.
  • Lipscomb, T. W. (1976). The South Carolina Constitution of 1776. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 77(2), 138–141.
  • Oller, J. (2010). The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution. Da Capo Press.[18]
  • Swan, P. G. (2007). “The Present Defenceless State of the Country”: Gunpowder Plots in Revolutionary South Carolina. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108(4), 297–315.

Early Republic to the Civil War[edit]

Civil War and Reconstruction[edit]

See also: Bibliography of American Civil War homefront and Bibliography of the Reconstruction era
  • Burton, V. (1978). Race and Reconstruction: Edgefield County, South Carolina. Journal of Social History, 12(1), 31–56.
  • Channing, S. (1974). Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina. W. W. Norton & Company
  • Ford, L. K. (1984). Rednecks and Merchants: Economic Development and Social Tensions in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1865–1900. Journal of American History, 71(1), 294–318.
  • Gatewood, W. B. (1991). “The Remarkable Misses Rollin”: Black Women in Reconstruction South Carolina. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 92(3), 172–188.
  • Hine, W. C. (1983). Black Politicians in Reconstruction Charleston, South Carolina: A Collective Study. The Journal of Southern History, 49(4), 555–584.
  • Holt, T. (1977). Black over White: Negro political leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction. University of Illinois Press.
  • Holt, T. C. (1982). Negro State Legislators in South Carolina during Reconstruction. University of Illinois Press.
  • Koivusalo, A. (2022). The Man Who Started the Civil War: James Chesnut, Honor, and Emotion in the American South. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Powers, B. E. Jr. (2011). "'The Worst of All Barbarism': Racial Anxiety and the Approach of Secession in the Palmetto State." South Carolina Historical Magazine, 112, 139–156.
  • Shapiro, H. (1964). The Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction: The South Carolina Episode. The Journal of Negro History, 49(1), 34–55.
  • Schultz, H. S. (1969). Nationalism and Sectionalism in South Carolina, 1852–1860. University of Illinois Press.
  • Williamson, J. R. (1965). After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina during Reconstruction, 1861–1877. W.W. Norton & Company.

Civil War military histories[edit]

See also: Bibliography of the American Civil War, Bibliography of American Civil War military leaders, Bibliography of American Civil War battles and campaigns, and Bibliography of American Civil War Confederate military unit histories

Post Reconstruction[edit]

  • Bedingfield, S. (2011). John H. McCray, Accommodationism, and the Framing of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940–48. Journalism History, 37(2), 91–101.
  • Carlton, D. L. (1982). Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880–1920. Louisiana State University Press.
  • Cooper Jr., W. J. (1968). The Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877–1890. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Edgar, W. B. (2012). South Carolina in the Modern Age (Illustrated edition). University of South Carolina Press.
  • Ford, L. K. (1984). Rednecks and Merchants: Economic Development and Social Tensions in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1865–1900. Journal of American History, 71(1), 294–318.
  • Haram, K. M. (2006). The Palmetto Leader’s Mission to End Lynching in South Carolina: Black Agency and the Black Press in Columbia, 1925-1940. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107(4), 310–333.
  • Gmelch, G. (2015). Southern Exposure: Life in the Carolina League in the Time of Jim Crow. Journal of Sport History, 42(3).
  • Griffith, N. S., & Raynal, C. E. (2016). Presbyterians in South Carolina, 1925-1985. Wipf and Stock.
  • Hartness, C. L. T. (2023). “Our Country First, Then Greenville”: A New South City during the Progressive Era and World War I. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Hine, W. C. (2018). South Carolina State University: A Black Land-Grant College in Jim Crow America. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Simon, B. (1998). A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910–1948. University of North Carolina Press.

Topical[edit]

Education[edit]

Main article: Education in South Carolina § Further reading
  • Bartels, Virginia B. "The History of South Carolina Schools" (Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, 2005) online
  • Easterby, J. H. "The South Carolina Education Bill of 1770." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 48.2 (1947): 95-111. online
  • Lesesne, Henry H. A history of the University of South Carolina, 1940-2000 ( U of South Carolina Press, 2001) online.
  • Meriwether, Colyer. History of Higher Education in South Carolina: With a Sketch of the Free School System. 1888 (US Government Printing Office, 1889) online.
  • Southern Regional Education Board. 2012 South Carolina Progress Report (2012) online
  • Walker, John, et al. eds. The Organization of Public Education in South Carolina (1992)

Slavery and Jim Crow[edit]

Further information: Education in South Carolina § Race
See also: Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States and Bibliography of slavery in the United States
  • Boyce, T. D. (2023). Steady and Measured: Benner C. Turner, A Black College President in the Jim Crow South. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Carney, J. (1996). Rice Milling, Gender and Slave Labour in Colonial South Carolina'. Past & Present, 153, 108–134.
  • Carney, J. A. (2002). Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Harvard University Press.
  • Chaplin, J. E. (1991). Creating a Cotton South in Georgia and South Carolina, 1760–1815. Journal of Southern History, 57(2), 171–200.
  • Coggeshall, J. M. (2018). Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community (Illustrated edition). The University of North Carolina Press.
  • Faber, E. (2021). The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Greene, J. P. (1987). Colonial South Carolina and the Caribbean Connection. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 88(4), 192–210.
  • Hine, W. C. (2018). South Carolina State University: A Black Land-Grant College in Jim Crow America. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Kantrowitz, S. (2000). Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Littlefield, D. C. (2000). The Slave Trade to Colonial South Carolina: A Profile. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 101(2), 110–141.
  • Mancall, P. C., Rosenbloom, J. L., & Weiss, T. (2001). Slave Prices and the South Carolina Economy, 1722-1809. The Journal of Economic History, 61(3), 616–639.
  • Marks, J. G. (2020). Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Schweninger, L. (1992). Slave Independence and Enterprise in South Carolina, 1780-1865. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 93(2), 101–125.
  • Sinha, M. (2000). The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Wood, P. H. (1996). Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion. W. W. Norton & Company.

Civil Rights[edit]

  • Bedingfield, S. (2011). John H. McCray, Accommodationism, and the Framing of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940–48. Journalism History, 37(2), 91–101.
  • Grose, P. G. (2006). South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Thomas, J. M. (2022). Struggling to learn: An intimate history of school desegregation in South Carolina. University of South Carolina Press.

Women and family[edit]

  • Burton, O. V. (1985). In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Gatewood, W. B. (1991). “The Remarkable Misses Rollin”: Black Women in Reconstruction South Carolina. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 92(3), 172–188. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27568239
  • Spruill, M. J. et al. (Eds.). (2009–2012). South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (3 vols.). University of Georgia Press.

Indigenous peoples of South Carolina[edit]

See also: Indigenous peoples of South Carolina

Religion[edit]

  • Clarke, E. (1996). Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690–1990. University of Alabama Press.

Urban history[edit]

  • Butler, C. R. (2020). Lowcountry at High Tide: A History of Flooding, Drainage, and Reclamation in Charleston, South Carolina. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Carlton, D. L. (1982). Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880–1920. Louisiana State University Press.
  • Hart, E. (2015). Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Marks, J. G. (2020). Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Rosen, R. N. (2021). A Short History of Charleston (Revised and expanded edition). University of South Carolina Press.

Miscellaneous[edit]

  • Coclanis, P. A. (2005). Global Perspectives on the Early Economic History of South Carolina. South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106, 130–146.
  • Feeser, A. (2013). Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life. University of Georgia Press.
  • Nagl, D. (2013). No Part of the Mother Country, but Distinct Dominions - Law, State Formation and Governance in England, Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1630–1769. Verlag.
  • Tuten, J. H. (2010). Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Winberry, J. J. (1979). Reputation of Carolina Indigo. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 80(3), 242–250.

Biography[edit]

  • Andrew Jr., R. (2012). Andrew Pickens: South Carolina Patriot in the Revolutionary War. McFarland & Company.
  • Andrew, R. (2017). The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder (Illustrated edition). The University of North Carolina Press.
  • Bass, J., & Thompson, M. W. (2003). Ol' Strom: An unauthorized biography of Strom Thurmond. Little, Brown and Company.
  • Brock, E. W. (1981). Thomas W. Cardozo: Fallible Black Reconstruction Leader. Journal of Southern History, 47(2), 183–206.
  • Boyce, T. D. (2023). Steady and Measured: Benner C. Turner, A Black College President in the Jim Crow South. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Cheek Jr., H. L. (2004). Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse. University of Missouri Press.
  • Curran, R. E. (Ed.). (2019). For Church and Confederacy: The Lynches of South Carolina. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Faber, E. (2021). The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Grose, P. G. (2006). South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Kantrowitz, S. (2000). Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Keyserling, H. (1998). Against the tide: One woman's political struggle. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Koivusalo, A. (2022). The Man Who Started the Civil War: James Chesnut, Honor, and Emotion in the American South. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Lamson, P. (1973). The Glorious Failure: Black Congressman Robert Brown Elliott and the Reconstruction in South Carolina. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Moulton, D. (2000). Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens: The Parallel Lives of Two American Patriots. Susquehanna University Press.
  • Niven, J. (1988). John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography. Louisiana State University Press.
  • Oller, J. (2010). The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution. Da Capo Press.
  • Rogers, G. C. (1962). Evolution of a Federalist: William Loughton Smith of Charleston (1758–1812). University of South Carolina Press.
  • Scarborough, W. K. (2011). Propagandists for Secession: Edmund Ruffin of Virginia and Robert Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina. South Carolina Historical Magazine, 112, 126–138.

Regional works[edit]

This section includes regional studies of what is now the southeastern United States which include substantial content about South Carolina.

  • Brown, D. C. (2011). King Cotton: A cultural, political, and economic history since 1945. University Press of Mississippi.
  • Crane, V. W. (1956). The Southern Frontier, 1670–1732. University of Michigan Press.
  • Edwards, L. F., & Sensbach, J. F. (2023). A New History of the American South (W. F. Brundage, Ed.). The University of North Carolina Press.
  • Foner, E. (2014). Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
  • Peirce, N. R. (1974). The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States, 1960–72. W. W. Norton & Company.[22][23]
  • Sublette, N., & Sublette, C. (2015). The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. Lawrence Hill Books.[24]

Historiography and bibliographies[edit]

Reference works[edit]

  • Edgar, W. (Ed.). (2006). The South Carolina Encyclopedia. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Edgar, W., Morris, J. B., Taylor, C. J., & Jr, G. C. R. (Eds.). (2020). A South Carolina Chronology (3rd edition). University of South Carolina Press.

WPA. South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State (1941), famous guide to all the town and cities. as well as main topics

Academic journals[edit]

Primary sources[edit]

This section contains a limited list of primary sources related to South Carolina history.

Print[edit]

  • Ashton, S. (Ed.). (2010). I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Hemphill, W. E. (Ed.). (1960). The Journals of the Provincial Congresses of South Carolina, 1775–1776. Columbia: South Carolina Archives Department.
  • Laurens, J. (1997). The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens in the Years 1777-1778. University of South Carolina Press.
  • Rutledge, E. (1973). The Autobiography of Edward Rutledge, 1774-1789. University of South Carolina Press.

Online[edit]

  • South Carolina Department of Archives and History, The State of South Carolina, retrieved 1 October 2023

Related bibliographies[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Works included by subject matter experts should have reviews in academic journals.
  2. ^ North Carolina and South Carolina were split in 1729. Georgia was governed loosely as part of the Carolinas until it was spilt from South Carolinia into a separate colony in 1732.

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ Newby, I. A. (1991). "Reviewed work: Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont, Allen Tullos". The American Historical Review. 96 (2): 612. doi:10.2307/2163416. JSTOR 2163416.
  2. ^ Pocius, Gerald L. (1995). "Reviewed work: Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont, Allen Tullos". The Journal of American Folklore. 108 (427): 107–109. doi:10.2307/541744. JSTOR 541744.
  3. ^ Shifflett, Crandall (1991). "Reviewed work: Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont, Allen Tullos". Journal of Social History. 25 (1): 152–154. doi:10.1353/jsh/25.1.152. JSTOR 3788520.
  4. ^ Simkins, Francis B. (1952). "Reviewed work: South Carolina: A Short History, 1520-1948, David Duncan Wallace". The Journal of Southern History. 18 (4): 526–528. doi:10.2307/2955234. JSTOR 2955234.
  5. ^ Shepperson, George (1953). "Reviewed work: South Carolina--A Short History, 1520-1948, David Duncan Wallace". The English Historical Review. 68 (267): 310–311. doi:10.1093/ehr/LXVIII.CCLXVII.310. JSTOR 555008.
  6. ^ A. K. G. (1952). "Reviewed work: South Carolina: A Short History 1520-1948, David Duncan Wallace". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 53 (3): 177–178. JSTOR 27565864.
  7. ^ Goloboy, Jennifer (2011). "Reviewed work: Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World, Emma Hart". The Journal of Southern History. 77 (4): 908–909. JSTOR 41305661.
  8. ^ Krawczynski, Keith (2012). "Reviewed work: Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World, Emma Hart". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 113 (1): 68–70. JSTOR 41698087.
  9. ^ Benser, Caroline Cepin; Johnson, George Lloyd (1998). "Reviewed work: The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736-1800, George Lloyd Johnson, Jr". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 99 (3): 295–297. JSTOR 27570322.
  10. ^ Friend, Craig Thompson; Johnson, George Lloyd (1998). "Reviewed work: The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736-1800, George Lloyd Johnson Jr". The North Carolina Historical Review. 75 (2): 221–222. JSTOR 23522630.
  11. ^ Zeigler, Benjamin Turner; Johnson, George Lloyd (1999). "Reviewed work: The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736-1800, George Lloyd Johnson Jr". The Journal of Southern History. 65 (2): 384–385. doi:10.2307/2587376. JSTOR 2587376.
  12. ^ Krawczynski, Keith (2016). "Reviewed work: From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists, Rebecca Brannon". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 117 (4): 336–339. JSTOR 45048437.
  13. ^ Ryan a. Quintana (2018). "New Approaches to the Old South". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 731. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0731. S2CID 149757922.
  14. ^ Piecuch, Jim; Brannon, Rebecca (2017). "Reviewed work: From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists, BrannonRebecca". The American Historical Review. 122 (4): 1209–1210. doi:10.1093/ahr/122.4.1209. JSTOR 26577061.
  15. ^ Cogliano, Frank (2005). "Reviewed work: South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History, John W. Gordon". War in History. 12 (2): 236–237. doi:10.1177/096834450501200211. JSTOR 26061895. S2CID 161699869.
  16. ^ Stucker, John J. (2003). "Reviewed work: South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History, John W. Gordon". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 104 (2): 130–132. JSTOR 27570627.
  17. ^ Maass, John R. (2004). "Reviewed work: South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History, John W. Gordon". The North Carolina Historical Review. 81 (2): 233–234. JSTOR 23523005.
  18. ^ McDonough, Daniel (2017). "Reviewed work: The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution, John Oller". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 118 (4): 321–323. JSTOR 45283247.
  19. ^ Faust, Drew Gilpin; Ford, Lacy K. (1990). "Reviewed work: Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860, Lacy K. Ford, Jr". The American Historical Review. 95 (4): 1291–1292. doi:10.2307/2163686. JSTOR 2163686.
  20. ^ Kruman, Marc W.; Ford, Lacy K. (1991). "Reviewed work: Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860, Lacy K. Ford, Jr". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 75 (1): 155–157. JSTOR 40582286.
  21. ^ Huff, A. V.; Ford, Lacy K. (1990). "Reviewed work: Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860, Lacy K. Ford, Jr". The Journal of American History. 76 (4): 1260–1261. doi:10.2307/2936629. JSTOR 2936629.
  22. ^ Gatewood, Willard B. (1974). "Reviewed work: The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States, Neal R. Peirce". The Journal of Southern History. 40 (4): 639–641. doi:10.2307/2206360. JSTOR 2206360.
  23. ^ Bartley, Numan V. (1975). "Reviewed work: The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States, Neal R. Peirce". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 54 (2): 234–235. JSTOR 30147353.
  24. ^ Pritchett, Jonathan B. (2017). "Reviewed work: The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry, Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette". The Journal of Economic History. 77 (4): 1243–1244. doi:10.1017/S0022050717000882. JSTOR 26787079.

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