Suggestions for Further Reading
The following is a selected bibliography of scholarly historical works on South Carolina and American history. This list is arranged under the same chronological framework as the syllabus for the 2005 Summer Institutes ("U.S. History to 1865: Content, Methods, and Resources for Teachers"). This list also contains general historical works on South Carolina history, bibliographies, documentary editions of primary resources, and some additional works on using primary sources in the classroom.
General
Edgar, Walter. South Carolina: A History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Kovacik, Charles F. and Winberry, John J. South Carolina: The Making of a Landscape. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.
Rogers, George C., Jr. and Taylor, C. James. A South Carolina Chronology, 1497-1992. Second Edition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
Wallace, David D. The History of South Carolina, 4 vols. New York: The American Historical Society, Inc. 1934-1935.
Pre-Historic Cultures to European Contact
South Carolina History
Hatley, Tom. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hudson, Charles, and Carmen Chaves Tesser, eds. The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704. Athens, GA, and London: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
The Colonies
American History
Taylor, Alan. American Colonies. New York: Viking, 2001.
South Carolina History
Littlefield, Dan. Rice and the Making of South Carolina: An Introductory Essay. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995.
Meriwether, Robert L. The Expansion of South Carolina, 1729-1765. Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, 1940.
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.
The Revolution
American History
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985.
Fischer, David Hackett. Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford, 2004.
South Carolina History
Edgar, Walter B. Partisans and Redcoats: the Southern Conflict that Turned the Tide of the American Revolution. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
Fraser, Walter J. Jr. Patriots, Pistols, and Petticoats: "Poor Sinful CharlesTown" during the American Revolution. 2nd ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
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.
Building the Republic
American History
Ferling, John. A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. New York: Oxford, 2003.
South Carolina History
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.
Jeffersonians in Power
American History
Elkins, Stanley and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism. New York: Oxford, 1993.
South Carolina History
Rogers, George C., Jr. Evolution of a Federalist: William Loughton Smith of Charleston (1758-1812). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1962.
Wolfe, J. Harold. Jeffersonian Democracy in South Carolina. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940.
The Age of Jackson
American History
Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Age of Jackson. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1945.
South Carolina History
Coit, Margaret L. John C. Calhoun: American Portrait. Reprint, with a new introduction by Clyde N. Wilson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
The Market Revolution
American History
Sellers, Charles B. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815 – 1846. New York: Oxford, 1991.
South Carolina History
Ford, Lacy K., Jr. Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Smith, Alfred Glaze. Economic Readjustment of an Old Cotton State: South Carolina, 1820-1860. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1958.
The Antebellum Era
American History
Clark, Christopher. The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780 – 1860. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Genovese, Eugene. Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage, 1974.
Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619 – 1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. New York: Vintage, 1982.
South Carolina History
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.
Joyner, Charles. Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1984.
Lander, Ernest M., Jr. Reluctant Imperialists: Calhoun, The South Carolinians, and the Mexican War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
The Road to Disunion
American History
Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion. New York: Oxford, 1990.
South Carolina History
Channing, Steven A. Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
Freehling, William W. Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
The Civil War and Reconstruction
American History
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction. New York: Harper and Row, 1992.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom. New York: Oxford, 1988.
South Carolina History
Cauthen, Charles E. South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press, 1950.
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.
Using Primary Sources
Vansledright, Bruce. In Search of America’s Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.
Veccia, Susan H. Uncovering Our History: Teaching with Primary Sources. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.
Wineburg, Sam. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
Bibliographies
Cote, Richard N. Local and Family History in South Carolina: A Bibliography. Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1981.
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.
Documentary Editions
Berlin, Jean V., ed. A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860-1863. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
Helsley, Alexia Jones. South Carolina Seceded: A Drama in Three Acts. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1999.
______. South Carolinians in the War for American Independence. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1998.
______, and Patrick McCawley. The Many Faces of Slavery. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2000.
Johnston, Terry A., Jr., ed. “Him on the One Side and Me on the Other:” The Civil War Letters of Alexander Campbell, 17th New York Infantry Regiment, and James Campbell, 1st South Carolina Battalion. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.