Events and News
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850
Feb. 25,27,28 2010
Featured Speakers:
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra,The Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, University of Texas.
David S. Shields, McClintock Professor of Southern Letters, University of South Carolina.
Leora Auslander, Professor of Modern European History, University of Chicago.
Contact Bill Olejniczak for information
Phone: 953-5930
Wachovia Distinguished Public Lecture: "Deliver Us from Evil"
The Slavery Question in the Old South
Thurday, April 22, 7:00 p.m. Arnold Hall
NEW in paperback ...
Broke by the War by Lee Drago,
A fascinating collection of more than 140 letters written between 1852 and 1857 by South Carolina slave trader A.J. McElveen..a good read for anyone with any interest in slave trade in the Antebellum South.
available May 2010.
Dr. Powers comments on the Denmark Vesey Memorial ...
"Robert Crout has spent more than 30 years getting to know the Marquis de Lafayette like few (if any) others do and he’s doing it in the upcoming PBS documentary, "Lafayette: The Lost Hero"
"Saving Private Ryan Forever"...The Oral History Project
Good Reads! Recent Faculty Publications...
Satan in America: the Devil We Know by W. Scott Poole, Rowman & Littlefield, October 2009
Toys, Consumption and Middle-Class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918, by Bryan Ganaway, Peter Lang Publishing, 2009
The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina by Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole, USC Press, 2009
Also ... Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany, by Jason Coy, Brill Press, 2008.
Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina, by
Lee Drago, Fordham Press, 2008.
