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| | | {{Image|Charleston-south-carolina-panoramic-sc1.jpg|right|450px|Panorama of Charleston ifrom Sullivan's Island in 2012. The steeple of St. Michael's Episcopal is at the center.}} |
| '''Charleston''' is the oldest major [[city]] in the Southeast [[U.S.|United States of America]], a center of culture and politics for over 200 years. It was captured by the [[British]] in 1780 during the Revolution. It was the cockpit of the secession movement in 1860-61, and the first shots of the [[U.S. Civil War|Civil War]] were fired in its harbor. The city escaped destruction during the war but failed to keep pace with northern cities as its hinterland sank into poverty. [[World War II]] and the [[Cold War]] revived the city, with wave after wave of military spending. Today it is a major tourist center, featuring its historic architecture. | | '''Charleston, South Carolina''' is the oldest major [[city]] in the southeast [[United States of America|U.S.]], a center of culture and politics for over 200 years. It was captured by the [[Great Britain | British]] in 1780 during the Revolution. It was the cockpit of the secession movement in 1860-61, and the first shots of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] were fired in its harbor. The city escaped destruction during the war but failed to keep pace with northern cities as its hinterland sank into poverty. [[World War II]] and the [[Cold War]] revived the city, with wave after wave of military spending. Today it is a major tourist center, featuring its historic architecture. with a large presence of the U.S. Navy. |
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| ===Art, Architecture, Literature, Science===
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| * Cothran, James R. ''Gardens of Historic Charleston.'' U. of South Carolina Press, 1995. 177 pp.
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| * Greene, Harlan. ''Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance.'' U. of Georgia Press, 2001. 372 pp.
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| * Hutchisson, James M. and Greene, Harlan, ed. ''Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940.'' U. of Georgia Press, 2003. 259 pp.
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| * Hutchisson, James M. ''DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess.'' U. Press of Mississippi, 2000. 225 pp.
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| * McNeil, Jim. ''Charleston's Navy Yard: A Picture History.'' Charleston, S.C.: Coker Craft, 1985. 217 pp.
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| * O'Brien, Michael and Moltke-Hansen, David, ed. ''Intellectual Life in Antebellum Charleston. '' U. of Tennessee Press, 1986. 468 pp.
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| * Poston, Jonathan H. ''The Buildings of Charleston: A Guide to the City's Architecture.'' U. of South Carolina Press, 1997. 717 pp.
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| * Severens, Kenneth. ''Charleston: Antebellum Architecture and Civic Destiny.'' U. of Tennessee Press, 1988. 315 pp.
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| * Stephens, Lester D. ''Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895.'' U. of North Carolina Press, 2000. 338 pp.
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| * Susan Sully; ''Charleston: Past and Present'' Rizzoli International Publications, 1998, on architecture. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=99414537 online edition]
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| * Waddell, Gene. ''Charleston Architecture: 1670-1860.'' 2 vol. Charleston, S.C.: Wyrick, 2003. 992 pp.
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| * Watson, Charles S. ''Antebellum Charleston Dramatists'' University of Alabama Press, 1976 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=57188986 online edition]
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| * Weyeneth, Robert R. ''Historic Preservation for a Living City: Historic Charleston Foundation, 1947-1997. '' (Historic Charleston Foundation Studies in History and Culture series.) U. of South Carolina Press, 2000. 256 pp.
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| * Yuhl, Stephanie E. ''A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston.'' U. of North Carolina Press, 2005. 285 pp.
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| * Zola, Gary Phillip. ''Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828: Jewish Reformer and Intellectual.'' U. of Alabama Press, 1994. 284 pp.
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| ===Race===
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| * Bellows, Barbara L. ''Benevolence among Slaveholders: Assisting the Poor in Charleston, 1670-1860.'' [[LSU Press|Louisiana State U. Press]], 1993. 217 pp.
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| * Drago, Edmund L. ''Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute.'' U. of Georgia Press, 1990. 402 pp.
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| * Egerton, Douglas R. ''He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey.'' Madison House, 1999. 248 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25142982863664 online review]
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| * Greene, Harlan; Hutchins, Harry S., Jr.; and Hutchins, Brian E. ''Slave Badges and the Sl ave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865.'' McFarland, 2004. 194 pp.
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| * Jenkins, Wilbert L. ''Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston.'' Indiana U. Press, 1998. 256 pp.
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| * Johnson, Michael P. and Roark, James L. ''No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War. '' U. of North Carolina Press, 1984. 174 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=41730524 online edition]
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| * Kennedy, Cynthia M. ''Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society.'' Indiana U. Press, 2005. 311 pp.
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| * Powers, Bernard E., Jr. ''Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885.'' U. of Arkansas Press, 1994. 377 pp.
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