they use words like craveable, snackable, moorishness. and i was rathe >>> welcome to columbia, south carolina on booktv. with the help of our local time warner cable partners, for the next hour, we'll feature the capital city and the surrounding hour visiting places like the basin to learn about its history and meet authors who help us understand the history of the state and our nation. >> the native americans in south carolina were interesting and different from others in that, yes, we had major tribes, others ran them out, and in south carolina, there were mostly extended family. >> mary chestnut was one of the most famous women of the 19th century. she was an author. she was the wife of a u.s. senator who resigned his senate seat when abraham lincoln was elected, and he came home to south carolina and became an aid camp of confederate president jefferson davis, and throughout the war, she kept a diary, and it's one of the most famousing s accounts of the civil war. >> we begin sitting on the porch of woodrow wilson's childhood home an