-PDF Download- The Calhoun Family And Thomas Green Clemson EBOOK

The Calhoun Family and Thomas Green Clemson

Author: Ernest McPherson Lander

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13:

John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) was born in South Carolina into a family which was already wealthy and important in South Carolina politics. He married his distant cousin, Floride Bonneau Colhoun (1792-1866) and they were the parents of seven children. In 1838 Anna Maria Calhoun (1817-1875), daughter of John and Floride, married Thomas Green Clemson (1807-1888) of Philadelphia. For the rest of his life he was deeply inolved in the Calhoun families political and business fortunes and problems. John C. Calhoun's political career continued to grow until he reached the status of America's statesman. Thomas Clemson's business career rocked between success and misfortune but ultimately succeeded, partly through the inheritance his wife received after the death of her father, John C., which included his beloved estate, Fort Hill. Thomas Green Clemson outlived his wife, Anna, and had only one grandchild. At his death he left a trust fund for his grandchild, Floride Isabelle Lee (1870- 1935) and donated the remainder of his estate, including Fort Hill Plantation to the state to create a university. Clemson University presently sits on the old Fort Hill Plantation of John C. Calhoun.

Thomas Green Clemson

Author: Alma Bennett

Publisher: Clemson University Press

Published: 2023-10-23

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 163804113X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Thomas Green Clemson (1807-1888), the founder of Clemson University, was a complex man of broad and varied interests. To introduce us to this man, specialists of history, science, agriculture, engineering, music, art, diplomacy, law, and communications come together to address Clemson's multifaceted life and issues that helped shape him.

Call My Name, Clemson

Author: Rhondda Robinson Thomas

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1609387414

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun’s plantation house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment of the plantation in 1825 through the integration of Clemson in 1963, African Americans have played a pivotal role in sustaining the land and the university. Yet their stories and contributions are largely omitted from Clemson’s public history. This book traces “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,” a Clemson English professor’s public history project that helped convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the institution’s complete and complex story from the origins of its land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century. Threading together scenes of communal history and conversation, student protests, white supremacist terrorism, and personal and institutional reckoning with Clemson’s past, this story helps us better understand the inextricable link between the history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher education institutions in America.

Legacy of a Southern Lady

Author: Ann Ratliff Russell

Publisher: Clemson University Press

Published: 2018-05-19

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1638041415

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

“Anna Calhoun Clemson was John C. Calhoun’s favorite child. After reading Ann Russell’s biography based on Anna’s letters, one finds it easy to understand why. The product of a famous family and an exceptional woman, Anna was also, as Russell ably demonstrates, very much “a southern lady.” Her story—her “life’s journey,” as Calhoun told his daughter her life would be–gives us a glimpse of an important southern family, of southern womanhood, of heartbreak and difficulty, of a nation torn apart by sectional conflict. Like Mary Chesnut’s famous diary, Anna’s letters, the crux of Russell’s study, provide us with a rich, detailed picture of southern life, both personal and public.”

Legacy of a Southern Lady, Anna Calhoun Clemson, 1817-1875

Author: Nancy Ann Russell

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

A Faithful Heart

Author: Emmala Reed

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781570035456

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Emmala Reed's journals from 1865 and 1866 present a detailed account of life in western South Carolina as war turned to reconstruction. Reed's postwar writings are particularly important given their rarity - many Civil War diarists stopped writing at war's end. Also unlike many diarists of the period, Reed lived in a small town rather than on a plantation or in an urban center.

The Calhoun Family and Thomas Green Clemson

Author: Ernest McPherson Lander

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

High Seminary: Vol. 1

Author: Jerome V. Reel

Publisher: Clemson University Press

Published: 2023-12-15

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1638041059

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

This study shows how Clemson weaves together the three federal charges of land-grant institutions—teaching (specified in the Land Grant Act of 1862), research (the Hatch Act of 1887), and public service (the Smith-Lever Act of 1914)—into a “high seminary of learning.” Clemson students and their lives here are the other major theme of this work. The narrative of this institution traces the people who created it, those who guided it, and the people who lived under its influence and the paths they followed as they left “dear old Clemson.”

Calhoun

Author: Robert Elder

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 046509645X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

A new biography of the intellectual father of Southern secession—the man who set the scene for the Civil War, and whose political legacy still shapes America today. John C. Calhoun is among the most notorious and enigmatic figures in American political history. First elected to Congress in 1810, Calhoun went on to serve as secretary of war and vice president. But he is perhaps most known for arguing in favor of slavery as a "positive good" and for his famous doctrine of "state interposition," which laid the groundwork for the South to secede from the Union—and arguably set the nation on course for civil war. Calhoun has catapulted back into the public eye in recent years, as some observers connected the strain of radical politics he developed to the tactics and extremism of the modern Far Right, and as protests over racial injustice have focused on his legacy. In this revelatory biographical study, historian Robert Elder shows that Calhoun is even more broadly significant than these events suggest, and that his story is crucial for understanding the political climate in which we find ourselves today. By excising Calhoun from the mainstream of American history, he argues, we have been left with a distorted understanding of our past and no way to explain our present.

The Invincible Duff Green

Author: W. Stephen Belko

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 082626512X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

"Drawing on previously unexploited primary sources, Belko illuminates the wide-ranging influence of Duff Green as land speculator, entrepreneur, lawyer, militia officer, politician, and newspaper editor. Disputing common assumption, Green is portrayed as a political moderate and independent westerner who played a fundamental role in the shaping of Jacksonian America"--Provided by publisher.