Tollison talks about her new book on ‘Your Carolina,’ public radio

Courtney Tollison’s latest book looks at Greenville in the Progressive Era.

Furman University’s Courtney Tollison ’99 appeared on the WSPA 7 News  program “Your Carolina” to talk about her third book, “‘Our Country First, Then Greenville:’ A New South City During the Progressive Era and World War I.”

Tollison, the Distinguished University Public Historian and Scholar at Furman, shared with the show’s hosts that her book includes never-before published images of Greenville and noted that women and African Americans are at the heart of the story. And while many people in the area identified first with the South, Greenville made it known that the city put the country’s interests first, and the city often collaborated with the federal government. The people of Greenville embraced “forward-thinking progress and growth,” she said. “That was distinctive.”

You can also hear an interview with Tollison on South Carolina Public Radio’s Walter Edgar’s Journal.