Carolina Voices: Two Hundred Years of Student Experiences

Publisher Marketing: In celebration of the University of South Carolina's bicentennial, this remarkable volume reveals the personal stories of Carolina students over the past two hundred years. Told in their own words, these writings - from antebellum manuscripts to e-mails - capture the color and spirit of the times, revealing attitudes and opinions, issues and passions. From those first young boys chopping wood to warm their rooms, to today's young men and women surrounded by the latest technology, the voices of Carolina's students testify to the transforming power of the college experience. To gather this collection of texts from 1801 to the present, the editors searched family papers, collections of letters, university archives, autobiographies and histories, journals and diaries, student newspapers and literary magazines, and oral histories. In this volume students share their own versions of the University of South Carolina story - explaining their activities, voicing their opinions, cheering their teams, and sometimes writing home from far away. Some of their concerns have changed; twenty-first century students worry more about parking tickets and phone bills than the price of fuel or the threat

Contributor Bio:  Matalene, Carolyn B Matalene is a professor in the English department at the University of South Carolina specializing in compostion and rhetoric. She was the 1998 recipient of the University of South Carolina's Amoco Outstanding Teaching Award. Contributor Bio:  Reynolds, Katherine Chaddock Reynolds is assistant professor of education at the Unversity of South Carolina