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The South Carolina State Library is excited to present our monthly selection of curated works for Women's History Month.
On our shelves, find powerful stories of women who have shaped both the state and the nation. These books feature narratives that span generations and cultural boundaries to highlight the impact of women on our nation's history.
A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings.
Three volumes. Biographical essays about South Carolina women that illustrate their lives and impacts throughout the state’s history.
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country. In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women's unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism.
This book is a complete guide to interpreting women's history. It connects scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-the objects, architecture and landscapes-in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them.
Discusses how everyday women have affected history throughout the South.
Michelle Haberland examines essential features of the history of apparel manufacturing and the varied experiences of its workers during the industry's great expansion from the late 1930s through the demise of its southern branch of the twentieth century as a connection between the history of women, southern culture, and labor history.
This book explores the dynamic role that Indigenous women in the South played in confronting sequential waves of colonization, European imperial invasion, plantation encroachment, and post-Civil War racialization, revealing that these events affected them in particular ways, and their means of adaptation and resistance likewise took distinct forms.
Erroneous government-generated "data" is more problematic than it would appear. This book demonstrates how women's history has consistently been hidden and distorted by 200 years of official government statistics.
Each entry offers a thumbnail description of a woman with a connection to South Carolina who made a significant impact in the history of the state, nation, and, in some cases, world.
Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
This book looks at 35 influential women that were either born in South Carolina, made their mark here, or both.
Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, Leslie Schwalm offers a thoroughly researched account of their vital roles in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery, and their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of war while redefining life and labor in the postbellum period.
The State Library will be supporting the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum's American Revolution Day. More American Revolution battles/skirmishes were fought in South Carolina than in any other state. Everyone has something to learn from the conflict that founded our country; the Relic Room’s full day of programs will offer something for everyone. Spend a day immersed in history and bring the youngsters!
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