South Carolina Historical Magazine back issues from January 2005:
"BUILDING INTELLIGENT AND ACTIVE PUBLIC MINDS": EDUCATION AND SOCIAL REFORM IN GREENVILLE COUNTY DURING THE 1930S
Jan 01, 2005; ... ON OCTOBER 28, 1933, BENNETTE GEER BECAME THE SIXTH president of Furman University, a private liberal-arts college with strong ties to the South Carolina Baptist Convention. In his inaugural address, Geer noted that "business methods and processes require progressive adjustments." "The ...
Charleston Architecture: 1670-1860
Jan 01, 2005; ... Charleston Architecture: 1670-1860. By Gene Waddell. 2 vols. (Charleston, S.C.: Wyrick & Company, 2003. Pp. 992; $150.00, cloth.) Gene Waddell is a superb researcher, particularly in primary sources. Once he has examined a subject, you canbe sure everything has been looked at. He ...
At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763/Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765
Jan 01, 2005; ... At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763. By Jane T. Merritt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 352; $39.95, cloth.) Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765. By Matthew C ....
The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Volume Fourteen: March-April 1778
Jan 01, 2005; ... The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Volume Fourteen: March-Aprill778. Edited by David R. hoth. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. xxxv, 755; $75.00, cloth.) Under the guidance of general editor Philander D. Chase, the various series of The ...
The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
Jan 01, 2005; ... The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Edited by Shawn Lay. (1992; reprint, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 230; $20.00, paper.) This collection of essays, which first came out in 1992, made a big claim ....
Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946
Jan 01, 2005; ... Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946. By Nina Mjagki. (1994; reprint, Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 198; $22.00, paperback.) With Light in the Darkness, Nina Mjagki, drawing on a wide range of sources, has presented us with the first ...
SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY RECENTLY PROCESSED MANUSCRIPTS
Jan 01, 2005; ... The following manuscript collections are now available for research by society patrons. The society welcomes gifts of manuscript collections and publications relating to South Carolina. Such gifts can be designated charitable contributions and are eligible for income tax ...
"THAT HISTORY IS TRULY THE LIFE OF NATIONS": HISTORY AND SOUTHERN NATIONALISM IN ANTEBELLUM SOUTH CAROLINA
Jan 01, 2005; ... CHARGED WITH THE TASK OF ADDRESSING THE SOUTH Carolina Historical Society on its fifth anniversary in I860, Thomas Hanckel began, appropriately enough, by extolling the virtues of history and memory. Personal memory, he explained, was an indispensable element of the human condition. Without it, ...
Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry
Jan 01, 2005; ... Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry. By W. Scott Poole. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. Pp. 280; $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) W. Scott Poole has written an ambitious and wide-ranging book. He seeks to tie together a number of ...
Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales
Jan 01, 2005; ... Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales. By Antonio Rafael de la Cova. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 537; $59.95, cloth.) Throughout the twentieth century, Ambrosio José Gonzales remained a forgotten historical personage. During the ...
George Washington's South
Jan 01, 2005; ... George Washington's South. Edited by Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Pp. x, 345; $59.95, cloth.) George Washington's South is an engaging collection of twelve scholarly essays that emerged out of a conference at the University of Southern ...
American Indians in U.S. History
Jan 01, 2005; ... American Indians in U.S. History. By Roger L. Nichols. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 242; $17.95, paperback.) Roger L. Nichols has written a concise history of American Indians from their origins to present day that covers all major events and controversies ....
Jefferson Davis, Confederate President
Jan 01, 2005; ... Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. By Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xix, 542; $39.95, cloth.) The new millennium has seen a remarkable renewal of interest in the life of Jefferson Davis. In the past few years William ...
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
Jan 01, 2005; ... Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor. By Evelyn Nakano Glenn. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 306; $18.95, paper.) In Unequal Freedom, Evelyn Nakano Glenn synthesizes historical and theoretical scholarship on racial and ...
MEMORIALS
Jan 01, 2005; ... In Memory Of: W. Fred Young, Jr. Dr. John L. O'Hear Dr. John L. O'Hear Thomas O. Lawton, Jr. Joe Vessio Hugh Cromer Lane Hugh Cromer Lane Charles St. George Sinkler Adams Dr. James Gendron Gibbes, Jr. Dr. R. Maxwell ...