Charleston Evening Post

The Charleston Evening Post: A Living Archive of Charleston, South Carolina is a profound journey through the deep history of one of America's oldest and most storied cities, the great port of the Lowcountry. Part of the acclaimed Living Archive Series published by Robert Shumake and Shumake Media Group, this volume preserves the documented story of the Charleston Evening Post and the city of Charleston, South Carolina, restoring it for a new generation of readers, students, genealogists, and history lovers.

Founded in 1894 and tracing its lineage to the News and Courier and a newspaper heritage reaching back to 1803, the Charleston Evening Post chronicled the Holy City until it merged into the Post and Courier in 1991. Inside, you'll explore Charleston's colonial origins as a great rice and seaport, its founding as one of the wealthiest cities of early America, and its central place in the history of the American South.

This book confronts the city's most consequential and painful history with honesty and care — the transatlantic slave trade and the role of Sullivan's Island as a point of arrival for enslaved Africans, the firing on Fort Sumter that began the Civil War in 1861, and the legacies of Denmark Vesey and educator Septima Clark.

The volume also features the city's weather and climate history, its business and cultural institutions, and a rich obituary section invaluable for Charleston, South Carolina genealogy and family history research. Researched and restored using advanced artificial intelligence and drawing on resources such as the Library of Congress, this historic newspaper archive returns the heritage of Charleston, South Carolina to the public it serves. An essential addition to any collection of South Carolina history, Southern history, and American history.