This site contains a brief history of the first ten newspapers printed in colonial America.

Links to pictures and essays on many early cotton mills in the Charlotte, N.C. area.

Toward the end of his first term in office, Jackson was forced to confront the state of South Carolina, the most important of the emerging Deep South cotton states, on the issue of the protective tariff. Business and farming interests in...

A scholarly publication which examines the archaeological findings of Snee Farm, the plantation and house owned by Charles Pinckney, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention from South Carolina. Click on "Table of Contents" to get a...

A short but detailed biography of this delegate from South Carolina to the Constitutional Convention. He later served as governor of the state.

Brief overview of the Revolutionary War in the South including campaigns of Savannah, Charleston and the significant battle at Cowpens, South Carolina.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, demand for cotton led to the expansion of plantation slavery. By 1850, enslaved people were growing cotton from South Carolina to Texas.

Most settlers who came to America in the 17th century were English, but there were also Dutch, Swedes and Germans in the middle region, a few French Huguenots in South Carolina and elsewhere, slaves from Africa, primarily in the South,...

It was the most famous road trip and the most important victory in Tennessee history. During the American Revolution, a British commander named Patrick Ferguson led an army through South Carolina. Along the way, he sent a threatening...

Champagne, noise makers and confetti are all New Year's Eve staples. But, in some parts of the country and the world, so are black-eyed peas, lentils, grapes and pickled herring. Hailing from the Low Country of South Carolina to Japanese...

Presents excellent information regarding South Carolina history, famous people, cities, geography, state parks, tourism, and historic sites. A fact sheet of information and a quiz are also available.

Explore aspects of African music as reflected in the songs and music of slaves who lived in coastal South Carolina.

Compares life in the three regions of the thirteen British colonies - the New England colonies (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut), the Middle Colonies (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey), and the...

The election of 1860 showed the deep divisions that split the country. With four candidates representing four very different approaches to the issue of slavery, the outcome resulted in the secession of South Carolina, followed eventually...

Whatever early colonial prosperity there was resulted from trapping and trading in furs. In addition, the fishing industry was a primary source of wealth in Massachusetts. But throughout the colonies, people relied primarily on small...

This site by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, part of the 'Documenting the American South' project, contains information and texts about first-person narratives of the American south. These documents give the viewpoint of...

Read reference information, and view primary source documents from the Nathanael Greene Monument, Guilford Courthouse in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Read reference information, and view primary source documents of Independence Monument, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

This biographical resource on John Calhoun points out Calhoun's resignation, the first vice-president to resign from active office. Calhoun opposed Jackson's affirmative stand on the Tariff of 1828 which favored the Industrial North over...

Ben Tillman, senator from South Carolina, gave a speech at the Democratic Convention in 1896, advocating for the free coinage of silver, the same issue addressed in a later speech by William Jennings Bryan. Read Tillman's speech here,...

Read the speech by a senator from South Carolina who used racist theories to support his argument for the Immigration Act of 1924. He was not alone in the Senate inhis support for restrictive immigration policies.

Rich site with collections of primary documents relating to the history and culture of African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina.

The short encyclopedia article recounts the slave uprising instigated by Denmark Vesey in South Carolina in 1822.

Replica of the Salisbury, North Carolina railway station teaches about riding and working on the railroad in the 1920s when railroads were a central part of American life. Railroad lines crisscrossed the country. They carried people,...