Events and News
Congratulations History Graduates!
and the Graduating Class of 2010
Summa Cum Laude with Highest Honor:
Michael E. Shanshala
Jennifer Nicole Thompson
Magna Cum Laude with Great Honor:
Elizabeth J. Atkinson *Honors College
Gabrielle Susan Guillen
Eric Andre Ketcham
Victoria L. Musheff
Ellen Early Steele *Honors College
Cum Laude with Honor:
Ann Louise Brown
Elizabeth D. Coralli
Kyle Donohue
Janine Kelly Flathman
Amy Elizabeth Keefe
Rylee McKay
Sarah Ashley Morris
Chelsea L. Oliver *Honors College
Anna E. Ritter
Shannon R. Smith *Honors College
2010
History Annual Awards
Student Research Paper Symposium
International Conference:
Civil War - Global Conflict
March 3-5, 2011
Four Keynote Speakers are slated who will address the theme of the Civil War in a global context:
James McPherson (Princeton), Jane Cashin (Ohio State/ biographer Varina Davis), EB Rugemer, Yale/Caribbean origins of the war) and Richard Blackett (Vandervilt/history of abolitionism)
Faculty Publications
New collections and connections! - Lowcountry Digital Library on FaceBook
South Carolina Digital Library
Congratulations to Dr. Drago as one of the George C. Rogers, Jr. Book Award finalists for Confederate Phoenix; Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina. Now in paperback with Fordham University Press.
Race, Labor & Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South conference:
"Scholars Discuss Slavery"...Post and Courier 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.
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.
available in paperback May 2010.
