Beech Island Historical Society Lecture
Promoting The Historical Resources of Audubon SC’s Silver Bluff – January 2019 As a red-tailed hawk soars above a place, what would it see if it could travel through time as well as space? That’s the question I asked at the Beech Island...
A Southern Gentleman by Way of Long Island
Robert E. Lee Barker With the recent death of Bob Barker, Charleston has lost a wonderful raconteur and one of its most memorable proponents of historic preservation. Though born and reared on Long Island, he grew up with a strong propensity for the South...
Making Connections Through Multi-Layered Stories
Audubon’s Silver Bluff Sanctuary How do you bring history forward and connect? That’s a hard question, but one that Silver Bluff Audubon Center & Sanctuary is answering by hiring two skilled videographers, Elizabeth Brown and Katherine Kelly, to...
Controversial Monuments and Memorials
A Guide for Community Leaders Edited by David B. Allison Besides seeing my essay on Confederate monuments in print at the 2018 American Association for State & Local History (AASLH) conference, one of my great pleasures was meeting historian David Allison,...
Planning “Freedom House” Oral Histories
The National Museum of African American History and Culture works to expand its interpretation of the Freedom House September 2018 The purpose of this latest project of the Smithsonian NMAAHC is to more fully document the history of the...About Us
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