College of Charleston: Department of History

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.

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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		Confederate Phoenix Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina Author: Edmund L. Drago October 2008 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. 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. back to top
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. 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