South Carolina Historical Magazine back issues from July 2004:
"BLACK AN' DUSTY, GOIN' TO AGUSTY": A HISTORY OF THE PORT ROYAL RAILROAD
Jul 01, 2004; ... IMMEDIATELY TO THE WEST OF THE WHALE BRANCH causeway across the Coosaw River that flows between Port Royal Island and the mainland of South Carolina sits a mile-long trestle. The old train bridge passes over the landing of the eighteenth-century rope ferry to the colonial port of Beaufort. Rail ...
Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimké, 1828-1835
Jul 01, 2004; ... Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimké, 1828-1835. Edited by Charles Wilbanks. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 245; $39.95, cloth.) Angelina Grimké is most frequently remembered in the historical record as a prominent member of the abolitionist ...
Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society
Jul 01, 2004; ... Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society. Edited by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 400; $49.95, cloth.) After decades of relative neglect, studies of ...
A History of African Americans in North Carolina
Jul 01, 2004; ... A History of African Americans in North Carolina. Revised Edition. By Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott, and Flora J. Hatley. (Raleigh: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2002. Pp. xii, 266; $15.00, paper.) When first published in 1992 by the North Carolina Division of Archives ...
The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation
Jul 01, 2004; ... The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 369; $80.00, cloth, $27.99, paper). Scholars of the African-American experience will appreciate Dunaway's attention to detail and groundbreaking paradigm ....
American Colonies
Jul 01, 2004; ... American Colonies. By Alan Taylor. (New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Pp. xvii, 526; $16.00, paper). Oh no, not another colonial history textbook might be the response on learning of American Colonies. The natural question is, what sets off this one from others in the field? Taylor's work ...
The Papers of Michael Tuomey
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Papers of Michael Tuomey. Edited by Lewis S. Dean. (Spartanburg, S.C.: The Reprint Company, 2001. Pp. xxviii, 364; $15.00, cloth). Michael Tuomey, born in Cork city, Ireland, in 1805, came to the United States in 1830. Educated at the Rensselaer School (currently the Rensselaer ...
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
Jul 01, 2004; ... Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. By Angela Lakwete. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. 248; $45.00, cloth.) Almost any student of history knows a few things about the cotton gin: that it was invented by Eli Whitney near Savannah in ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN AND THE CREATION OF THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS: AN ESSAY ON POLITICAL RIVALRY, IDEOLOGY, AND POLICYMAKING IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC
Jul 01, 2004; ... "THE EXPERIENCE OF THE INDIAN FACTORY SYSTEM," reflected Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, "is an illustration of the unfitness of the federal government to carry on any system of trade, the liability of the benevolent designs of the government to be abused, and the difficulty of detecting ...
William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot
Jul 01, 2004; ... William Henry Orayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot. By Keith Krawczynski. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 348; $51.95, cloth.) A part of the Southern Biography Series, edited by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Keith Krawczynski's book presents a detailed ...
Road Trips Through History: A Collection of Essays from Preservation Magazine
Jul 01, 2004; ... Road Trips Through History: A Collection of Essays from Preservation Magazine. By Dwight Young. (Washington, D.C.: National Trust For Historic Preservation, 2003. Pp. 115; $15.00, paper.) Probably not one of the most famous, and certainly not one of the most important, pieces of ...
Daniel Boone: An American Life
Jul 01, 2004; ... Daniel Boone: An American Life. By Michael A. Lofaro. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. xv, 206; $25.00, cloth.) Daniel Boone once represented the "pioneering spirit" of America, bravely exploring new regions and carving a path for settlers into the Ohio River valley ....