Time Periods

U.S. senator. Born near the North Carolina border, Smith spent most of his life in York District. After studying with…

Lawyer, congressman, diplomat. Smith was born on October 2, 1758, the son of the prominent merchant Benjamin Smith and Anne…

Industrialist. Smyth was born on October 26, 1847, in Charleston, the son of the Reverend Thomas Smyth and Margaret M.…

Clergyman, author. Smyth was born on June 14, 1808, in Belfast, Ireland, the son of Samuel Smyth, a merchant, and…

Philanthropist. Snowden was born in Charleston on September 10, 1819, the daughter of Joseph Yates and Elizabeth Saylor. Her father,…

Horse racing has been a favorite sport in England since the sixteenth century and naturally found its way to the…

After the Civil War, South Carolina’s Republican politicians recognized that the lack of access to land by former slaves was…

The South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, located in Columbia, was established by the General Assembly in 1821. It did not open,…

On April 3, 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Smith v. Allwright that the white primary in Texas was…

The constabulary’s prime mission of countering illegal whiskey was difficult and dangerous. Remote areas in mountains and swamps saw a near fanatical belief by residents that laws from beyond their domain held no sway in their territory. “Moonshine” liquor was part of the culture and a way some chose to earn a living when times were tough.

South Carolinians for Eisenhower was formed by Columbia attorney Douglas McKay to support the candidacy of the Republican presidential nominee…

The Southern Aviation School in Camden, founded in November 1940 by Frank W. Hulse and Ike F. Jones of Augusta,…

The Southern Quarterly Review (SQR) originated in January 1842 in New Orleans but moved to Charleston later that year, where…

The pellagra hospital in Spartanburg was the nation’s first facility dedicated to discovering the cause of that baffling and serious…

Monroe Kirklyndorf Spears was born in Darlington, South Carolina, and educated at the University of South Carolina, where he earned…

Legislator, congressman. Spence was born in Columbia on April 9, 1928, the son of J. W. and Addie Jane Spence…

Legislator, educator. Spencer was born in Charleston on October 23, 1850, the eldest son of James A. Spencer, a porter,…

Novelist, short story writer. Nicknamed “Mickey” by his Irish Catholic father, Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March…

In the mid-1970s no one could have imagined staid, conservative Charleston welcoming an invasion by more than 150,000 people for…