South Carolina Historical Magazine back issues from April 2004:
"A FAITHFUL WATCHMAN ON THE WALLS OF CHARLESTOWN": JOSIAH SMITH AND MODERATE REVIVALISM IN COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA
Apr 01, 2004; ... BENJAMIN COLMAN, BOSTON'S LEADING EVANGELICAL pastor in the early eighteenth century, thought of the expansion of the gospel in Atlantic and global terms. In 1727 he turned his eye to North America's Atlantic coast, where he envisioned establishing links of the evangelical network in every key ...
A History of the University of South Carolina, 1940-2000
Apr 01, 2004; ... A History of the University of South Carolina, 1940-2000. By Henry H. Lesesne. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 471; $39.95, cloth.) Between 1900 and 1940 research became a central preoccupation in some fifteen to twenty of America's leading universities ....
The Irish in the South, 1815-1877
Apr 01, 2004; ... The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. By David T. Gleeson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 278; $45.00, cloth; $19.95 paper.) Historians of the field of southern white ethnocultural history have produced valuable community studies for a considerable variety ...
Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy
Apr 01, 2004; ... Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy. By Richard N. Côté. (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Corinthian Books, 2003. Pp. xvi, 400; $29.95, cloth.) Theodosia Burr was certainly one of the most intriguing women this country has ever produced. She was beautiful, born into a prominent family, ...
Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History
Apr 01, 2004; ... Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History. By David Goldfield. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 354; $34.95, cloth.) David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has ...
A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective
Apr 01, 2004; ... A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective. By Peter Kolchin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 124; $22.95, cloth.) Peter Kolchin has presented historians of the United States South with a helpful guidebook for ...
WILLTOWN, BLACK MINGO: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN EARLY VILLAGE IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA LOWCOUNTRY
Apr 01, 2004; ... ON MAY 20, 1788, PATRICK DOLLARD, A TAVERN KEEPER FROM Prince Frederick's Parish, South Carolina, rose to address an assembly gathered in the Exchange Building on the Charleston waterfront. The state legislature had summoned this convention to debate the merits of the proposed federal ...
Lands of True and Certain Bounty: The Geographic Theories and Colonization Strategies of Jean Pierre Purry
Apr 01, 2004; ... Lands of True and Certain Bounty: The Geographic Theories and Colonization Strategies of Jean Pierre Puny. Edited and annotated with introductions to the texts by Arlin C. Migliazzo. Translations from the French by Pierrette C. Christianne-Lovrienand 'BioDunJ. Ogundayo. (Selinsgrove, Pa.: ...
The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South Since 1930
Apr 01, 2004; ... The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South Since 1930. Edited by Elna C. Green. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 275; $19.95, paper.) As Elna C. Green points out in her introduction to this fine collection, scholarship on twentieth century social welfare ...
South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South
Apr 01, 2004; ... South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South. By James David Miller. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 205; $35.50, cloth.) James David Miller investigates the "Fever" (p. 2) of migration that propelled Americans to the southwest ...
Baptist Faith in Action: The Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895
Apr 01, 2004; ... Baptist Faith in Action: The Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895. By Kathryn Carlisle Schwartz. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 399; $39.95, cloth.) In Baptist Faith in Action, Carlisle Schwartz blends commentary and primary sources from the ...