College of Charleston: Department of History

Bureaucratic Literacy, OralTtestimonies, 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.

War, Society and Enlightenment edited by Patrick J. Speelman, 2005
Collected in this volume are all the known works of General Henry Lloyd, an eighteenth-century 'philosophe', who crafted a modern critical approach to military thinking. These six works serve as an introduction to and reflection on the theory of war produced during the Age of the Enlightenment. Republished from the originals, this is the first compilation and only modern edition of his political, economic and historical treatises. With introductory essays and annotations by the Editor, this volume provides both depth and context to the study of this long-neglected and misunderstood figure.

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.

Southern Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective, ed. by Mellisa Walker, Jeanette R. Dunn, and Joe P. Dunn with author Amy Thompson McCandless "'Separate But Equal' Case Law and the Higher Education of Women in the Twenty-first Century South," (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003): 108-144.

Money, Trade, and Power
The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society "is a comprehensive exploration of the colony's slave system, economy, and complex social and cultural life. A collection of fifteen essays, theis volume highlights recent research on the Lower South, a region that Jack P. Greene describes as one of the final frontiers in colonial British American history."
Edited by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks 2001 University of South Carolina Press

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.

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
Edited by Edmund L. Drago
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 Irish in the South 1815-1877 Author: David T. Gleeson, 2001 Winner of the 2001 Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book, American Conference on Irish Studies The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. 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. The Hong Kong People's History of Hong Kong 1841-1945 Xianggang-ren zi Xianggang-shi Author: Jung-Fang Tsai, 2001 Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, Until recently, most scholarly works on Hong Kong have been written either from a Eurocentric colonial perspective, or from a Marxist, Sinocentric viewpoint marked by anticolonialism and Chinese patriotism. This book is different. It focuses on the complex social and political dynamics of Hong Kong and the life experience of its people during the hundred years from 1841 to 1945. It demonstrates that Hong Kong people had multiple identities. They regarded China as their motherland, but in the course of history they also came to identify themselves as Hong Kong people with their own concerns and interests that they believed could be better protected under foreign colonial rule. This sheds some light on the current predicament of Hong Kong people. Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony 1842-1913 Author: Jung-Fang Tsai Based on extensive documentation in both Chinese and English, this book delineates the gradual yet significant social and political changes that transformed colonial Hong Kong during a crucial stage of Sino-Western interaction and the global expansion of capitalism.imperialism. Columbia University Press, 1993 Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and Brecht Author: Richard Bodek Camden Press, 2002 This book examines the interplay of socialist and communist politics with the world of the working class and particularly its younger people. Drawing on sources such as newspaper articles, the text of agitprop plays, festival and concert programmes, and police reports, Professor Bodek provides a new angle on the forces at work in the proletarian sphere during the period, and highlights the different aesthetics and political theories of Social Democratic workers' choruses and Communist agitprop theatre. Fulbe Presence in Sierra Leone. A Case History of Twentieth-Century Migration and Settlement Among the Kissi of Koindu. author: Alpha Bah (Peter Lang Press,1998 American University Studies, Series IX, History, vol. 140, pp.vii-x, 1-191) Fulbe Presence in Sierra Leone is an important piece of scholarship that documents the richness and diversity of African history. This study not only documents the cost of artificially drawn borders in human terms, but it also provides a case study in the discrimination of a people by other groups or the government, for one reason or another. The author takes his readers through the complex processes leading to the defining of the borders of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. The role of the Fulbe in the establishment of Koindu as a modern market town is fascinating. Fulbe traders also contributed to the improvement of the social life and the conversion of Kissis to Islam. Despite the role of the Fulbe in Koindu they are still considered “strangers” in Sierra Leone. Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era author: Peter McCandless This is a highly commendable study. Impressively researched and clearly written, it sheds important light on the history of mental illness in the South. It is also a fine example of psychiatric history at its best. Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness is an important contribution to southern, social, and medical history. University of North Carolina Press, 1996 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. A Place Called St. John's. The Story of John's , Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah, and Seabrook Islands of South Carolina (with Elizabeth H. Stringfellow). author: Wayne Jordan The Reprint Co., Publ., Spartanburg, SC, 1998. The Past in the Present: Women's Higher Education in the Twentieth-Century American South. by Amy McCandless The University of Alabama Press, 1999, Tuscaloosa and London, 389 pp. Black Police in America author: Marvin W. Dulaney Indiana University Press, 1996 "Black Police in America is the most comprehensive and best documented study that I have read on African Americans in law enforcement." 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. back to top
Bureaucratic Literacy, OralTtestimonies, 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. War, Society and Enlightenment edited by Patrick J. Speelman, 2005 Collected in this volume are all the known works of General Henry Lloyd, an eighteenth-century 'philosophe', who crafted a modern critical approach to military thinking. These six works serve as an introduction to and reflection on the theory of war produced during the Age of the Enlightenment. Republished from the originals, this is the first compilation and only modern edition of his political, economic and historical treatises. With introductory essays and annotations by the Editor, this volume provides both depth and context to the study of this long-neglected and misunderstood figure. 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. Southern Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective, ed. by Mellisa Walker, Jeanette R. Dunn, and Joe P. Dunn with author Amy Thompson McCandless "'Separate But Equal' Case Law and the Higher Education of Women in the Twenty-first Century South," (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003): 108-144. Money, Trade, and Power The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society "is a comprehensive exploration of the colony's slave system, economy, and complex social and cultural life. A collection of fifteen essays, theis volume highlights recent research on the Lower South, a region that Jack P. Greene describes as one of the final frontiers in colonial British American history." Edited by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks 2001 University of South Carolina Press 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. 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 Edited by Edmund L. Drago 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. back to top