Charleston, South Carolina
The Evolution of Architecture in Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
As the wealthiest city in the colonies, Charleston got a head start in architecture three hundred years ago–and it shows
16 of the South’s Most Beautiful Churches: Part Three
Worshiping with marble and arches, stained glass and steeples, Southern believers state by state have a glorious heritage in ecclesiastical architecture
Blooms, Batteries, and Blue-Clawed Belles: What to Do in Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina
With typical Southern hospitality, Charleston offers up an impossibly bountiful spread to delight the palate of every guest.
8 Great Books on Charleston History
Charleston, South Carolina
Perhaps no other single city in the whole of the South has as lengthy and crucial a history in relation to the rest of the South’s evolution than Charleston, South Carolina
Sean Brock: Portrait of a Southern Chef
Charleston, South Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee
This champion for Southern culinary traditions and locally-grown produce has a Southern heritage cookbook collection you wouldn’t believe—and his own Heritage is about to belong in every Southern kitchen.
The Flower of the South: Magnolia Plantation
Charleston, South Carolina
When John Grimke-Drayton opened the gardens of Magnolia-on-the-Ashley to the public following the Civil War, it became the first public garden in America
Irish Sports, Southern Twang
Nashville, Tennessee
If you traveled the globe you wouldn’t likely see a group of Southerners playing Irish sports with the Parthenon as a backdrop. Unless you’re at Centennial Park in Nashville, that is.
“Mother of the Movement” Septima Poinsette Clark
Charleston, South Carolina
Septima Poinsette Clark came to be known as the Mother, Grandmother, and Queen Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, but not before she faced more than her fair share of adversity
The Making of Maverick
Charleston, South Carolina
Samuel Maverick participated in revolutions, survived kidnapping, and owned huge swaths of Texas, but it was his refusal to adhere to a single law of rancher life that put him into history books—and dictionaries.
The Galveston Movement
Galveston, Texas
In the early twentieth century, this small point on the Texas coastline was the Ellis Island of the South to thousands of Jews looking for American peace and freedom.
The Many Lives of The Hunley
Charleston, South Carolina
The Hunley was the first submarine to sink a warship—but she did not emerge unscathed, nor did her various crews.
Blackbeard at Bath
Bath, North Carolina
North Carolina’s first port city, Bath provided a peaceful retirement for the Terror of the Seas
The Palmetto State
Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina
The Palmetto State? What is it about the Palmetto tree that caused South Carolina to take that name?
Home Is Where the Sweet Tea Is
Steeped in history as old as the colonies, few things other than sweet tea have become so iconic to the South
A Culture of Their Own: Gullah
Charleston, South Carolina
Forced from their homeland of western Africa to Charleston’s low country to cultivate rice on marshy plantations, a large community of slaves took advantage of their relative isolation in order to create a new culture: Gullah.
Columbia’s University Hills and Five Points Neighborhoods
Columbia, South Carolina
Built by plan from pre-Civil-War to post-World-War-II days, the University Hills neighborhood of Columbia, South Carolina, has some of the most impressive architecture in the city
Sean Brock’s Heritage Cookbook: A Review
Charleston, South Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee
Chef Sean Brock tells the story of the South through recipes made from cultural influence, economic necessity, and local agriculture
