South Carolina Historical Magazine back issues from April 2003:
Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
Apr 01, 2003; ... Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony. By Lee Miller. (New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Pp. xi, 362; $15.00, paper) The disappearance of the Lost Colonists of Roanoke Island is one of the most persistent and fascinating mysteries in American history. In this study, Lee Miller has ...
Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift
Apr 01, 2003; ... Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift. By Thomas E. Chavez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 286; $29.95, cloth.) Thomas Chavez undertook this study of Spain's involvement in the Revolutionary War because he believes that too few ...
Women, Power, and Dissent in the Hills of Carolina
Apr 01, 2003; ... Women, Power, and Dissent in the Hills of Carolina. By Mary K. Anglin. (University of Illinois: Urbana, 2002. Pp. xi, 216; $39.95, cloth.) Mica is found in eye shadow and refrigerator coils; mica plate can be used in oven windows; and mica flakes are used in the manufacture of paint and ...
A Citizen-Soldier's Civil War: The Letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris
Apr 01, 2003; ... A Citizen-Soldier's Civil War: The Letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris. Edited by Jerome Mushkat. (Dekalb: Northern Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 321; $36.00, cloth.) The increased number of firsthand accounts or primary documents of the Civil War published over the past few ...
Clelia McGowan's journey: From the fires of war to a life of social activism
Apr 01, 2003; ... BRIDGING THE SOCIETAL CONVENTIONS PLACED UPON southern women during the Victorian age, the life story of Clelia Peronneau Mathewes McGowan offers historians a prism through which to view upper-middle class women who, despite being expected to embody the "lady on the pedestal" of the Lost Cause, ...
The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South. By Demetrius L. Eudell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 238; $45.00, cloth.) The historical literature abounds with works devoted to slavery. Emancipation has not received ...
Anchored Yesterdays: The Log Book of Savannah's Voyage across a Georgia Century, in Ten Watches
Apr 01, 2003; ... Anchored Yesterdays: The Log Book of Savannah's Voyage across a Georgia Century, in Ten Watches. By Elfrida De Renne Barrow and Laura Palmer Bell. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. Pp. 160; $19.95, cloth.) "Our people still live in tents, there being only two clapboard houses ...
A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968-1976
Apr 01, 2003; ... A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968-1976. By Gordon E. Harvey. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 230; $34.95, cloth.) In 1958, in his first run for the Florida legislature, future governor Reubin Askew was accused by one of the state's ...
South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History
Apr 01, 2003; ... South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History. By John W. Gordon. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 238; $29.95, cloth.) Gordon's treatment of the American Revolution in South Carolina succeeds on several levels. First, as the subtitle ...
The Civilian Conservation Corps and the emergence of South Carolina's state park system, 1933-1942
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE PRESENCE OF THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC) during the Great Depression of the 1930s constituted the most significant force in the emergence of South Carolina's state park system. As a corrective to the hard times, the Franklin D. Roosevelt-inspired CCC provided the work force and the ...