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DaVinci Panel 2009
Faculty Seminar Series - Fall 2009
November 19 : Dr Barry Stiefel, Historic Preservation Program--author of the 2009 Hines Prize-winning book manuscript "Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural History," Levin Library, Jewish Studies Center, 7-8:30 pm
History Oral Interview Project:
This project documents accounts of veterans and civilians who were affected by World War II.
The oral project is part of Veterans’ History Project, passed by the US Congress in 2000.
These interviews will provide a base for future undergraduate and faculty research at the College as well as teaching students to use oral interviews in research and learn how memory changes over time as political values and issues shift.
Capturing these first-hand accounts is significant as veterans and adult civilians from 1941-1945 are at least 80 years old and the opportunity to record their memories is rapidly passing.
The History Department envisions an on-going process of oral interviews within the community. Additional classes and coursework related to The Korean and Vietnam Wars are also being discussed. For more information, contact Bryan Ganaway at 843- 953-5711 or ganawayb@cofc.edu
"Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom"
Peter Bernard, Charlie Patrick, Professor Robert Crout, and Neal Polhemus with Governor Mark Sanford (seated) as the Lafayette Proclamation is signed.
Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World (CLAW)
Upcoming Conferences:
Women of the Spanish Atlantic
February 18-20 2010
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 1750-1850
Featured speakers for the Feb. 25-27, 2010 conference held in Charleston include:
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas.
David S. Shields, McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina.
Leora Auslander, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Chicago.
Religion of the Sea - March 2010
US Civil War as International Conflict - Spring 2011
Honor Student Dan Gidick as re-enactor and "living historian"- be it Civil War or the Rev War.
"Robert Crout has spent more than 30 years getting to know the Marquis de Lafayette like few (if any) others do – and now it’s time for a faceoff. He’s going head to head not with the French military officer himself, of course, but with another Lafayette expert – and he’s doing it in the upcoming PBS documentary, Lafayette: The Lost Hero"
S.C. Book Festival 2009
Jack Bass and Scott Poole presented The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina.
Dr. Bernard L. Powers Jr., Professor of History lectured on
"'A World in Shadow: Persons of Color in Antebellum South Carolina' South Carolina and the United States, 1763-1860"
Fall 2008 Faculty Seminar Series:
September 26 Layfayette and Gender Issues in the Revolutionary Atlantic, Dr. Robert Crout
November 7 "Something for the Girls': Marriage Customs in Confederate South Carolina, Dr. Lee Drago
Professor Bernard Powers spoke at the annual Boule Public Policy Forum. His lecture was entitled "African American Freedom and Justice in 2008." read more...
