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=​ Welcome to the Everyday History of Upstate SC! = media type="custom" key="5117287" **This wiki is a class project for students in //The Everyday History of Modern America// (Spring, 2010 @ Southern Wesleyan University in Central, SC). ** This class covers the events, trends, and fads that influenced the daily life of Americans from 1900 to the present. Topics range from Beatlemania to political assassinations to Chernobyl to Dolly the sheep. Students receive a working knowledge of everyday American history and become more culturally literate and aware in the process.

Since we covered the everyday history of the United States as a whole, I thought a good project would be for the students to do the same type of coverage for the Upstate of South Carolina. This website is the result. Students were supposed to find at least four articles from each of their assigned years and either summarize the contents or type in the full article (sources were to be cited in both cases). Some newspapers were available on-line, so several of the students linked to the original articles. As with any school project, some students put forth more effort than others.

Below (and in the left-hand column) you will find links to 5-year periods from 1900 to 2000; these pages will highlight the events, some important and some normal, that influenced the daily life of those in the Upstate of South Carolina. __The First 20 years__ 1900 - 1905 1906 - 1910 1911 - 1915 1916 - 1920

__The Second 20 years__ 1921 - 1925 1926 - 1930 1931 - 1935 1936 - 1940

__The Third 20 years__ 1941 - 1945 1946 - 1950 1951 - 1955 1956 - 1960

__The Fourth 20 years__ 1961 - 1965 1966 - 1970 1971 - 1975 1976 - 1980

__The Fifth 20 years__ 1981 - 1985 1986 - 1990 1991 - 1995 1996 - 2000