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| Author | : Robert N. Rosen |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2021-05-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1643361872 |
A lively chronicle of the South's most renowned city from the founding of colonial Charles Town through the present day A Short History of Charleston—a lively chronicle of the South's most renowned and charming city—has been hailed by critics, historians, and especially Charlestonians as authoritative, witty, and entertaining. Beginning with the founding of colonial Charles Town and ending three hundred and fifty years later in the present day, Robert Rosen's fast-paced narrative takes the reader on a journey through the city's complicated history as a port to English settlers, a bloodstained battlefield, and a picturesque vacation mecca. Packed with anecdotes and enlivened by passages from diaries and letters, A Short History of Charleston recounts in vivid detail the port city's development from an outpost of the British Empire to a bustling, modern city. This revised and expanded edition includes a new final chapter on the decades since Joseph Riley was first elected mayor in 1975 through its rapid development in geographic size, population, and cultural importance. Rosen contemplates both the city's triumphs and its challenges, allowing readers to consider how Charleston's past has shaped its present and will continue to shape its future.
| Author | : Robert N. Rosen |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Charleston (S.C.) |
| ISBN | : 087249991X |
The Cradle of Secession's illustrious Civil War experience.
| Author | : Anne Rockwell |
| Publisher | : Carolrhoda Books ® |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2013-11-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1467737836 |
What happened when a former enslaved man took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans? Thousands of futures got a little brighter and a great American art form was born. In 1891, Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins opened his orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina. He soon had hundreds of children and needed a way to support them. Jenkins asked townspeople to donate old band instruments—some of which had last played in the hands of Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. He found teachers to show the kids how to play. Soon the orphanage had a band. And what a band it was. The Jenkins Orphanage Band caused a sensation on the streets of Charleston. People called the band's style of music "rag"—a rhythm inspired by the African American people who lived on the South Carolina and Georgia coast. The children performed as far away as Paris and London, and they earned enough money to support the orphanage that still exists today. They also helped launch the music we now know as jazz. Hey, Charleston! is the story of the kind man who gave America "some rag" and so much more.
| Author | : Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2010-02-15 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1614235317 |
From the Lowcountry's first recorded duel to old-fashioned summers at the 'hottest spot in town", these pages will captivate you with stories of people, events and places that have all but vanished from memory. Find out the real history behind some of Charleston's beloved mansions and learn about the early plantations and their owners. Join the authors as they relate the riots and romance, the preservation and politics - and even a ghost story - from Charleston's hidden history.
| Author | : Jack McCray |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738543505 |
Reveals the rich, untold story of the evolution of American jazz music and how the inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina, had a huge impact on the music as we know it today. Original.
| Author | : Kevin R. Eberle |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2012-08-21 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1614236593 |
Most visitors to Charleston never venture far enough north to discover what residents claim as the most appealing public open space on the peninsula. Hampton Park is completely unexpected in this city famous for highly manicured gardens with clipped lawns, sculpted shrubs and precise designs hidden behind massive walls and iron gates. Hampton Park's naturalistic character was created as an antidote to the cramped conditions of the lower peninsula, and it still offers open fields of grass, walking trails, shade trees and overflowing flower beds. But the story is not that simple--it began more than three hundred years ago with Native Americans and involves early plantation life, Revolutionary War battles, horse racing, the Civil War, industrial development, civic spectacle, professional baseball, a zoo and disco.
| Author | : Walter J. Fraser, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2022-03-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1643363344 |
Often called the most "Southern" of Southern cities, Charleston was one of the earliest urban centers in North America. It quickly became a boisterous, brawling sea city trading with distant ports, and later a capital of the Lowcountry plantations, a Southern cultural oasis, and a summer home for planters. In this city, the Civil War began. And now, in the twentieth century, its metropolitan area has evolved into a microcosm of "the military-industrial complex." This book records Charleston's development from 1670 and ends with an afterword on the effects of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, drawing with special care on information from every facet of the city's life—its people and institutions; its art and architecture; its recreational, social and intellectual life; its politics and city government. The most complete social, political, and cultural history of Charleston, this book is a treasure chest for historians and for anyone interested in delving into this lovely city, layer by layer.
| Author | : Steve Estes |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2015-07-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469622335 |
Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society built on the racial hierarchies of slavery and segregation. By the 1970s, the legal structures behind these racial divisions had broken down and the wealth built upon them faded. Like many southern cities, Charleston had to construct a new public image. In this important book, Steve Estes chronicles the rise and fall of black political empowerment and examines the ways Charleston responded to the civil rights movement, embracing some changes and resisting others. Based on detailed archival research and more than fifty oral history interviews, Charleston in Black and White addresses the complex roles played not only by race but also by politics, labor relations, criminal justice, education, religion, tourism, economics, and the military in shaping a modern southern city. Despite the advances and opportunities that have come to the city since the 1960s, Charleston (like much of the South) has not fully reckoned with its troubled racial past, which still influences the present and will continue to shape the future.
| Author | : Marshall Stearns |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 1994-03-22 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780306805530 |
"The phrase jazz dance has a special meaning for professionals who dance to jazz music (they use it to describe non-tap body movement); and another meaning for studios coast to coast teaching 'Modern Jazz Dance' (a blend of Euro-American styles that owes little to jazz and less to jazz rhythms). However, we are dealing here with what may eventually be referred to as jazz dance, and we could not think of a more suitable title. "The characteristic that distinguishes American vernacular dance--as does jazz music--is swing, which can be heard, felt, and seen, but defined only with great difficulty. . . ." --from the Introduction
| Author | : Julian Buxton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Includes ghost stories from the Aiken-Rhett House, the Garden Theater, and the Cooper River Bridge.
