Kingstree

Like many proprietary governors, Robert Johnson struggled to balance proprietary demands with political realities in South Carolina.

Mills defined both his personal and public ambition in an 1808 letter to Jefferson, in which he declared his desire to pursue “the honour and benefit of my country.”

Three times in the history of South Carolina, tobacco has risen to the status of a major cash crop, and…

Goldstein’s research with Michael Brown into cholesterol metabolism and the discovery of low-density LDL receptors brought them joint award of the 1985 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

(937 sq. miles; 2020 pop. 29,825). Williamsburg County, located in the outer coastal plain and in the southern tip of…