Edgefield County is a county located on the western border of the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census,its population was 25,657. Its county seat and largest community is Edgefield. The county was established on March 12,1785.
Clemson University is a public land-grant research university near Clemson,South Carolina,United States. Founded in 1889,Clemson is the second-largest university by enrollment in South Carolina. For the fall 2023 semester,the university enrolled a total of 22,875 undergraduate students and 5,872 graduate students,and the student/faculty ratio was 15:1.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman was a politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894,and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white supremacist who opposed civil rights for black Americans,Tillman led a paramilitary group of Red Shirts during South Carolina's violent 1876 election. On the floor of the U.S. Senate,he defended lynching,and frequently ridiculed black Americans in his speeches,boasting of having helped kill them during that campaign.
Louis Trezevant Wigfall was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Texas from 1862 to 1865. He was among a group of leading secessionists known as Fire-Eaters,advocating the preservation and expansion of an aristocratic agricultural society based on slave labor. He briefly served as a Confederate Brigadier General of the Texas Brigade at the outset of the American Civil War before taking his seat in the Confederate Senate. Wigfall's reputation for oratory and hard-drinking,along with a combative nature and high-minded sense of personal honor,made him one of the more imposing political figures of his time. He was also an enslaver.
The Hamburg massacre was a riot in the United States town of Hamburg,South Carolina,in July 1876,leading up to the last election season of the Reconstruction era. It was the first of a series of civil disturbances planned and carried out by white Democrats in the majority-black Republican Edgefield District,with the goal of suppressing black Americans' civil rights and voting rights and disrupting Republican meetings,through actual and threatened violence.
Matthew Calbraith Butler was a Confederate soldier,an American military commander,attorney and politician,and slaveholder from South Carolina. He served as a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War,reconstruction era three-term United States Senator,and a major general in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War.
Social class is an important theme for historians of the United States for decades. The subject touches on many other elements of American history such as that of changing U.S. education,with greater education attainment leading to expanding household incomes for many social groups. The overall level of prosperity grew greatly in the U.S. through the 20th century as well as the 21st century,anchored in changes such as growing American advances in science and technology with American inventions such as the phonograph,the portable electric vacuum cleaner,and so on. Yet much of the debate has focused lately on whether social mobility has fallen in recent decades as income inequality has risen,what scholars such as Katherine S. Newman have called the "American nightmare."
Francis Butler Simkins was a historian and president of the Southern Historical Association. He is best known for his highly praised history of the Reconstruction Era in South Carolina,that gave fair coverage to all sides,and for his widely used textbook The South,Old and New (1947) and his monographs on South Carolina history. He was a professor at Longwood College in Virginia,Simkins was a leading progressive in the 1920s and 1930s regarding race relations but became a defender of segregation in the 1950s and 1960s.
The 1876 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 7,1876,to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. The election campaign was a referendum on the Radical Republican-led state government and their Reconstruction policies. Opponents disputed the challenger Wade Hampton III's victory,gained by a margin of little more than 1100 votes statewide. But he took office in April 1877,after President Hayes withdrew federal troops as a result of a national Democratic compromise,and the incumbent Daniel Henry Chamberlain left the state.
Plain Folk of the Old South is a 1949 book by American Vanderbilt University historian Frank Lawrence Owsley,one of the Southern Agrarians. In it he used statistical data to analyze the makeup of Southern United States of America society,contending that yeoman farmers made up a larger middle class than was generally thought.
Thomas Cleveland Holt is an American historian,who is the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. He has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1994.
Robert C. "Bob" McMath Jr. is a historian and former Dean of the Honors College of the University of Arkansas. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972. From then until his appointment at the University of Arkansas in 2005,he taught history and held a series of administrative posts at Georgia Tech,except for 1996 when he was a Fulbright Lecturer in Italy. In August 2014,he retired from the University of Arkansas and is now Professor Emeritus of History and Dean Emeritus.
The Institute for Computing in Humanities,Arts,and Social Science (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was established in 2005 to conduct research at the intersection of high performance computing and humanities,arts,and social science. I-CHASS is hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and maintains strategic partnerships with NCSA,the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC),and the Illinois Informatics Institute (I3).
Digital history is the use of digital media to further historical analysis,presentation,and research. It is a branch of the digital humanities and an extension of quantitative history,cliometrics,and computing. Digital history is commonly known as digital public history,concerned primarily with engaging online audiences with historical content,or digital research methods,that further academic research. Digital history outputs include:digital archives,online presentations,data visualizations,interactive maps,timelines,audio files,and virtual worlds to make history more accessible to users. Recent digital history projects focus on creativity,collaboration,and technical innovation,text mining,corpus linguistics,network analysis,3D modeling,and big data analysis. By utilizing these resources,the user can rapidly develop new analyses that can link to,extend,and bring to life existing histories.
Joseph Fletcher Anderson Jr. is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
The Graduate School at Clemson University currently offers 110 graduate degree programs in 66 fields of study. Included in this total are 37 doctoral,65 master's,and one educational specialist program.
The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation is the successor organization of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC),which was created by Congress and the President of the United States to plan the commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday in 2009. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission sunset on April 30,2010
Richard Joseph Jensen is an American historian. He was a professor of history at the University of Illinois,Chicago,from 1973 to 1996. He has worked on American political,social,military,and economic history as well as historiography and quantitative and computer methods. His work focuses on Midwestern electoral history. He authored The Winning of the Midwest and Historian's Guide to Statistics.
Apparao M Rao is the Robert A. Bowen Endowed Professor of Physics in the department of physics and astronomy,the founding director of the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute,and a former associate dean for discovery in the college of science at Clemson University. His research in nanoscience and nanotechnology has been cited over 54,600 times in open literature and his h-index is 98. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society,the American Association for the Advancement of Science,the National Academy of Inventors,and the Materials Research Society. In 2012,he received the Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievements in Research,and has served on the Advisory Panel for the Dean and the Vice-President of Research,Clemson University. His research and development efforts led to the establishment of Clemson Nanomaterials Institute,which supports sustainable research and development capacity and competitiveness in the U.S. and the State of South Carolina. The State of South Carolina conferred on him its highest honor - the 2014 Governor’s award for excellence in scientific research.
Joseph Drew Lanham is an American author,poet,and wildlife biologist who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022 for his work "combining conservation science with personal,historical,and cultural narratives of nature."
