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The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina
Authors: W. Scott Poole and Jack Bass,2009
As South Carolina enters into the fourth century of its storied existence, the state’s captivating, colorful, and controversial history continues to warrant fresh explorations. In this sweeping story of defining episodes in the state’s history, accomplished Southern historians Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole trace the key importance of race relations, historical memory, and cultural life in the progress of the Palmetto State from its colonial inception to its present incarnation.
USC Press

Culture, Sport Society, A Frank Cass Journal; Ethnicity, Sport, Identity, Struggles for Status; eds. J.A. Mangan, A. Ritchie; "Jim Crow Strikes Out: Branch Richey and the Struggle for Integration in American Baseball" Author: Stuart Knee (Vol. 6, Summer/Autumn 2003, 3):71-87.

Black Charlestonians. A Social History, 1822-1885
Author: Bernard E. Powers, Jr.
University of Arkansas Press, 1994
Because of its large free black population, Charleston provided a case study of black social class stratification and social mobility even before the Civil War. Reconstruction only emphasized that stratification and Powers examines in detail the aspirations and concessions that shaped the lives of the newly-freed blacks.

book Hurrah for Hampton
Hurrah for Hampton: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction
Author: Edmund L. Drago
University of Arkansas Press, 1998
In South Carolina, in the aftermath of the Civil War, a group of ex-slaves joined the Democratic "Red Shirts," white paramilitary clubs dedicated to restoring antebellum values. Drawing on primary sources, Drago examines the relationship between black initiative and southern paternalism.

Broke by the War Letters of a Slave Trader
Edmund L. Drago and A.J. McElveen
Broke by the War is a collection of letters written by slave trader McElveen to Z.B. Oakes, a slave broker. The letters, written between 1852 and 1857, were taken as souvenirs in 1865 by a jounalist who presented them to Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Subsequently, the Garrison family donated them to the Boston Public Library. They provide insight into the economic side of the domestic slave trade, discussing prices, shipping, supply sources, and financing.



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		The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina Authors: W. Scott Poole and Jack Bass,2009 As South Carolina enters into the fourth century of its storied existence, the state’s captivating, colorful, and controversial history continues to warrant fresh explorations. In this sweeping story of defining episodes in the state’s history, accomplished Southern historians Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole trace the key importance of race relations, historical memory, and cultural life in the progress of the Palmetto State from its colonial inception to its present incarnation. USC Press Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina Author: Edmund L. Drago October 2008 Culture, Sport Society, A Frank Cass Journal; Ethnicity, Sport, Identity, Struggles for Status; eds. J.A. Mangan, A. Ritchie; "Jim Crow Strikes Out: Branch Richey and the Struggle for Integration in American Baseball" Author: Stuart Knee (Vol. 6, Summer/Autumn 2003, 3):71-87. Black Charlestonians. A Social History, 1822-1885 Author: Bernard E. Powers, Jr. University of Arkansas Press, 1994 Because of its large free black population, Charleston provided a case study of black social class stratification and social mobility even before the Civil War. Reconstruction only emphasized that stratification and Powers examines in detail the aspirations and concessions that shaped the lives of the newly-freed blacks. Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations Charleston's Avery Normal Institute Author: Edmund L. Drago, 1990 This book shows how the diverse events in Avery's long history reflected the shifting course of race relations within an Old South city. Hurrah for Hampton: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction Author: Edmund L. Drago University of Arkansas Press, 1998 In South Carolina, in the aftermath of the Civil War, a group of ex-slaves joined the Democratic "Red Shirts," white paramilitary clubs dedicated to restoring antebellum values. Drawing on primary sources, Drago examines the relationship between black initiative and southern paternalism. Broke by the War Letters of a Slave Trader Edmund L. Drago and A.J. McElveen Broke by the War is a collection of letters written by slave trader McElveen to Z.B. Oakes, a slave broker. The letters, written between 1852 and 1857, were taken as souvenirs in 1865 by a jounalist who presented them to Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Subsequently, the Garrison family donated them to the Boston Public Library. They provide insight into the economic side of the domestic slave trade, discussing prices, shipping, supply sources, and financing. The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750 - 1850, Selected papers, 1999, Owen Connelly, Charles Crout, Donald Horward, William Olejniczak, Michael Pavkovic (eds.), pp.1-530. (Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University, 1999) Lafayette In The Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790 Vol. 5, Editors: Robert Crout and Stanley Idzerda, Cornell University Press, 1983 back to top back to top
Satan in America: the Devil We Know Author: W. Scott Poole, Rowman & Littlefield, October 2009. "Scott Poole offers a brilliant book about the prince of darkness in our current and historical consciousness. This is an outstanding work." Edward J. Blum, author of W.E.B. DuBois, American Prophet and Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and american Nationalism. Toys, Consumption and Middle-class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918, Author: Bryan Ganaway,2009 Drawing on a variety of techniques from history, anthropology and literary criticism the author argues toy consumption helped adults negotiate the transmission of middle-class values regarding modernity, technology, gender roles and nationalism to their children. Peter Lang Publishers Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany Author: Jason P. Coy, 2008 This book examines the role of banishment, a prevalent form of punishment largely neglected by scholars, in sixteenth-century Ulm, using the town’s experience to uncover how early modern magistrates used expulsion to regulate and reorder society. Brill Press 2008 Bureaucratic Literacy, Oral Testimonies, and the Study of Twentieth-Century Ethiopian History Author: Tim Carmichael Journal of African Cultural Studies, Vol. 18, Number 1, June 2006, pp.23-42 Charleston's Avery Center: from Education and Civil Rights to Preserving the African American Experience Author: Edmund L. Drago, 2005 Revised and edited by W. Marvin Dulaney Avery's history is artfully conveyed from its beginning to during Reconstruction to its current incarnation as an African American research center under the auspices of the College of Charleston. South Carolina's Civil War: A Narrative History Author: W. Scott Poole, 2005 South Carolina’s Civil War provides a much-needed synthesis of a wealth of work by social, cultural, and military historians. Using a narrative approach to his controversial topic, the author makes the central issues of the conflict in the Palmetto state accessible to the lay reader. The book explores some of the more colorful personalities of the Civil War era. Vale of Tears: New Essays in Religion and Reconstruction Authors: Edward J. Blum & W. Scott Poole, 2005 The authors of this collection examine how African Americans and white Southerners, New England Abolitionists and former Confederate soldiers, Catholics and Protestants on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line brought their sense of the sacred into collaboration and conflict. Never Surrender Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry Author: W. Scott Poole, 2004 The most focused and detailed history of southern conservatism to date. Poole traces the evolution of Lost Cause ideology in South Carolina from its prewar genesis through Reconstruction and the New South era, from its romanticized agrarian roots to its appropriation by the entrepreneurial middle-class. Crossings Frontiers: Culture, Language & Bilingualism; Peter Pelham & Eric Widmer, editors "Crossing Cultural and Linguistic Frontiers: Some Reflections from a Historian on the Recent European Past" Author: William Olejniczak (Deerfield Academy Press, 2004): 25-39. Convicts and Orphans: Forced and State-Sponsored Colonizers in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755 Author: Timothy J. Coates Stanford University Press, 2002 This book examines how the early modern Portuguese stat used convicts and orphans to polulate its global empire. In addition, it addresses the issue of gender in the state's use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries they agreed to relocate overseas. back to top