Discover fifty-one South Carolina women who have shaped the history of our state. From Judith Giton Manigault to Emily Geiger to Modjeska Simkins and beyond, these biographies are great starting points to these great ladies’ lives. 

Originally residing in the Piedmont region of SC, Catawba Nation tribes have a strong history of matrilineal kinship systems and authority in coalition with their male relations. The author is a member of the Catawba Nation and uses her knowledge of their native language family and archaeological data to explore their complex history from within. 

The League of Women Voters’ Columbia chapter helps the SC public become informed and active participants in our government. Read about what they’ve accomplished through their activism since WWII.

Women were crucial in making apparel manufacturing a major industry in the South. This book shows how this female workforce contributed to the history of Southern labor and cultural history, from its technological expansion right after the Great Depression up into the new millennium. 

This collection of essays brings together the complexities of all Southern women and the historians who tell their stories. Everything from race to indigenous culture to politics is explored in details that shed new light on women’s history in the South.  

This book is a critical survey of US history told through the multifaceted yet often-ignored perspectives of Black women who lived it. Historians Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross examine Black women’s unique contributions and celebrate their abilities to create their own communities while combatting oppression.