Recent News
- Helen Suzman, Fighter for Human Rights Exhibition at Addlestone Library February 1- March 31, 2012 Helen Suzman, the iconic South African leader who devoted her life to the fight against Apartheid, is the focus of a graph panel exhibition. Suzman was a member of the South African Parliament for 36 years, until 1989. From 1961 [...]
- Coming up this Friday (Feb. 3) @ 8:00 pm there is gonna be a live music show featuring the following bands/artists! Can’t Kids (Columbia) - Can’t Kids Forest Tourist (Charleston) - Forest Tourist Joel Hamilton (Charleston) - Joel Hamilton All events at the Museum are FREE, and open to the public!
- As a part of our efforts to educate the public about the scholarship that is being done here at the Avery Research Center here is a post written by the Public Historian, Dr. Robert Chase, about his upcoming conference. In the Fall, Dr. Chase presented ...
- New additions to the Browsing Collection have arrived… A Drop of the Hard Stuff: a Matthew Scudder Novel, by Lawrence Block ◊ A Natural History of the Piano: the Instrument, the Music, the Musicians–from Mozart to Modern Jazz, and Everyth...
- Announcing the publication of Dr. Robert Chase’s article “Slaves of the State’ Revolt: Southern Prison Labor and a Prison-Made Civil Rights Movement” in Robert Zieger’s collected anthology, Life and Labor in the New, New South...
- In conjunction with the exhibit currently running at the Addlestone Library, Beth Lincks, playwright and member of the College’s theatre department, will speak today (Thursday, Jan.19) at 6 pm in Addlestone room 227 about her play “Letters to Sala.” The exhibit runs through the end of January.
- Find the answer at the Addlestone Library http://www.cofc.edu/library/index.php. Want to know more? Visit the Huff Post article SOPA Blackout Aims To Block Internet Censorship Bill: Thousands of websites, including some of the most popular, are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which is designed to thwart copyright infringement but that Web [...]
- Want to project images on a wall from your iPhone? Absolutely, YES! This small device allows you to do it. Right now, it’s a separate device, but it would be great if it becomes an iPhone feature in the near near future. Does anyone know if there’a an app for that? (Thanks Clayton Nagy for [...]
- For the past couple of weeks, I have been inventorying the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Charleston Branch Collection. The local branch was started in 1916 by individuals who believed in being an advocate for the Af...
- The pieces for the exhibit arrived yesterday and we are all excited to see it up and to have people come and view it with us next Thursday, Jan 12th. Exhibit Opening Information http://blogs.cofc.edu/averynews/files/2012/01/DowTurnerPostcard.pdf Exhi...
