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News Archive

South Carolina Social Studies Teacher Recognized with National Award

Special Exhibit Highlights Lee County History

Writing & Healing Program in Charleston

Call for Speakers to be Listed on THCSC Roster!

Nominations Requested for SC Center for the Book Awards

Camp Read-a-Rama

Story to Stage Oral History Summer Camp

Grants Writing Workshop for Community Cultural Projects

Six Historic Columbia Neighborhoods Are Being Studied

2010 SC Humanities Festival

Sumter County Cultural Commission Receives Major NEH Grant

Charleston Jazz Initiative Legends Festival

Stitching Stories Lecture Series in Myrtle Beach

THCSC Announces New Request for Proposals

A Call for Nominations for the Governor's Awards in the Humanities

A Call for Nominations for the Board of Directors

2010 Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia

Documentary About Julia Peterkin to Air on Statewide SCETV

Columbia Jewish Film Festival

Student Activism Conference at the University of South Carolina

After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics Conference

Joe Stukes History Series

African-American Research in the 21st Century

THCSC Awards $46,000 in Major Grants

Francis Marion Living History Days

Monkey King: A Story from China

Special Sweetgrass Basket Events at McKissick Museum

Special Documentary About South Carolina Women to Premiere in March

National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman to Speak in South Carolina

SC Librarian Honored with National Award

New Harmonies Host Sites Announced!

Humanities American Lecture Series

SC Rosenwald Schools Traveling Exhibit

Apron Chronicles Exhibit in Myrtle Beach

Beaufort Three-Century Project

Special Program on the Battle of Camden

Special Documentary Screenings in Columbia and Gaffney

Literature & Medicine Program at VA Hospital in Charleston

2nd Annual American Indian Expo

Four New Members Named to THCSC Board

State Scholar Announced for Special Smithsonian Exhibit Project

THCSC Awards $80,000 in Major Grants

Family-Friendly Heritage Festival in Belton, SC

2009 Governor's Awards in the Humanities Announced

History of McCormick County Published

The History of Back Country Indigo

James Leach Confirmed as NEH Chair

Exhibit About Jak Smyrl to Appear at McKissick Museum

SC Literary Arts Partnership Announces New Coordinator

Documentary About South Carolinian Melvin Purvis to Air on SCETV

Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Pavilion to Open in Mt. Pleasant

Free Grants Writing Workshop

Smithsonian Exhibit About American Music to Tour South Carolina

National History Day in South Carolina

Two Calls for Nominations

A Call for Nominations for the Board of Directors

Independent Film Festival in Columbia

THCSC Grant-Funded Project Receives State Recognition

THCSC Awards Over $43,000 in Major Grants

Symposium on Singin' Billy Walker

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Launches Humanities Indicators Prototype

Literature & Medicine Program Comes to Spartanburg

Art of Music Series at Columbia Museum of Art

Special Photography Exhibit On Display on Hilton Head Island

Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop

General Francis Marion Cordially Invites You...

Six New Members Named to THCSC Board

THCSC Awards Over $43,000 in Major Grants

2008 South Carolina Humanities Festival

2008 Governor's Awards in the Humanities Announced

New Play Festival in Greenville

Exhibit on Robert Smalls Opens in Charleston

Summer Ethics Academy at Coastal Carolina University

357 South Carolina Schools Receive NEH's Picturing America

Two Documentary Films Premiere in Charleston

Governor's Awards in the Humanities - Nominations

A Call for Nominations for the Board of Directors

Sumter Scottish Country Fair and Celtic Festival

Special exhibit and panel discussion at Gibbes Museum of Art

Save America's Treasures Solicits Applications

Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Awards and Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards

Clemente Course at Trident Technical College Receives Service Learning Award

Giuseppe Garibaldi Conference at the University of South Carolina

Humanities on the Hill

Gardening Symposium Comes to Columbia

The Humanities Council SC Awards Over $50,000 in Major Grants

Documentary Premiers in Charleston

"Pages from the Past" Exhibit at Thomas Cooper Library

Executive Director Randy Akers Celebrates 20 Years With THCSC

Dr. Fred Carter Leads Strategic Planning Meeting

Georgetown Library Serves as First Host of Special Ben Franklin Exhibit

The Humanities Council SC Awards $60,930 in Major Grants

Governor's Awards in the Humanities To Be Presented

The Humanities Council SC Announces 2008 Board of Directors, Officers

SC Civil War Sesquicentennial Statewide Meetings

New Scholar Joins Speakers Bureau: Humanities Out Loud

Position Available

Special Preview Screenings of Ken Burns' New Documentary

2007 South Carolina Humanities Festival Comes to Newberry

South Carolina Teacher Recognized for Humanities Project

Susanna Brailsford Named New Literary Arts Partnership Coordinator

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