Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina » (New Edition)

Jack Bass, director of the Citadel Alumni World War II Oral History Project, is a professor emeritus of humanities and social sciences at the College of Charleston. He is the author or coauthor of seven other books about the American South, including Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond, The Transformation of Southern Politics, and Taming the Storm, winner of the 1994 Robert Kennedy Book Award. Bass served as executive editor for the fourteen-part television series The American South Comes of Age. He was twice named South Carolina Journalist of the Year and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

W. Scott Poole is an associate professor of history and the director of the master's program in history at the College of Charleston. Poole is the author of three previous works on the American South. His first book, Never Surrender, won the 2004 George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award of the South Carolina Historical Society. He served as a contributing historian for the History Channel series The States and the PBS series Slavery in the Making of America.

A concise approach to the major themes and events that define contemporary South Carolina

List of Illustrations

1 The Beginning 1

2 The American Revolution 15

3 An Era of Decline 23

4 Civil War and Reconstruction 44

5 The Tillman Era 63

6 World Wars and the Depression 79

7 Civil Rights Era 86

8 Politics of Transition 103

9 A New Era Evolves 111

10 Popular Culture 138

11 The Republican Rise 146

12 Beyond the Bozart 158

13 The Changing Economy 177

14 Change and Continuity 195

A South Carolina Chronology 207

Notes 213

Index 223