| On the Horseshoe: A Guide to the Historic Campus of the University of South Carolina Contributor(s): West, Elizabeth Cassidy (Author), Allen, Katharine Thompson (Author), Edgar, Walter B. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 161117600X ISBN-13: 9781611176001 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | History - Education | Higher - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 378.757 |
| LCCN: 2015022522 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.35 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Columbia, South Carolina - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, the University of South Carolina is one of the nation's oldest public colleges. Located in the heart of downtown Columbia and bound by Sumter, Pendleton, Bull, and Greene Streets, this historic landscape, known today as the Horseshoe, has both endured and prospered through more than two centuries of South Carolina's often-turbulent history. In On the Horseshoe: A Guide to the Historic Campus of the University of South Carolina, Elizabeth Cassidy West and Katharine Thompson Allen offer a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the historic Horseshoe. So much more than just a walking tour of Carolina's historic original campus, On the Horseshoe features a wealth of archival photographs and drawings dating back to the nineteenth century and also provides a close look at the Horseshoe's structures as well as the men and women who lived, worked, and studied in them. A numbered map with corresponding descriptions locates more than two dozen structures on the original campus and includes the history of each one, the important events that took place there, and its current use. An accompanying Web site (www.sc.edu/horseshoe) provides additional information and images for those who wish to further their knowledge of the university's history. Walter Edgar, Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at USC, provides a foreword. |
Contributor Bio(s): West, Elizabeth Cassidy: - Elizabeth Cassidy West is the university archivist for the University of South Carolina. She is the author of University of South Carolina Football Vault: The History of the Gamecocks and The University of South Carolina and is curator of more than twenty-five exhibits about USC's campus history.Allen, Katharine Thompson: - Katharine Thompson Allen is a project archivist for the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina. She served as lead researcher and author for the booklet "The University of South Carolina Horseshoe: Heart of the Campus," edited by West.Edgar, Walter: - Walter Edgar is the Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of South Carolina: A History, editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia, and host of the radio program Walter Edgar's Journal. |