Recovering the Piedmont Past, Volume 2: Bridging the Centuries in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1877-1941

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Recovering the Piedmont Past, Volume 2
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Foreword The New South’s Encounters with the Nation and the World—Insights from the South Carolina Upcountry
Introduction
The Circus Is Coming to Town The Golden Age of the Circus in the South Carolina Upcountry
Booker T. Washington, Spartanburg, and the Cherokee Springs Hotel
“Paternalism run mad” The Subtreasury Debate, Ben Tillman, and the Farmers’ Alliance in the South Carolina Upcountry
The Scourge of the South Pellagra and Poverty in Spartanburg’s Mill Villages
“Oh, my God, prosper this work” William Plumer Jacobs and the Thornwell Orphanage
“Better Babies” Dr. Daniel Lesesne Smith, His Baby Hospitals, and the Southern Pediatric Seminar
From Sparta to Spartanburg The Experience of Greek Americans in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Robert Quillen An Upcountry Apostle for Small-Town Life
“Crazed mystic in the White House” W. P. Beard, White Supremacy, and Opposition to World War I
From Fifth Avenue to the Dark Corner The New York National Guard in Glassy Mountain Township, 1917–18
New Deal Communities Table Rock State Park, Pickens County, and the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression
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Contributors
Index