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Claudia Smith Brinson

Collecting and Telling Your and Others’ Stories
Education and the Vote: Then and Now
400 Black Women and a Union: The 1969 Charleston Hospital Strike
“Soul Power“ of South Carolina Sit-Ins
From a Wheelchair
How Brown v Board of Education Began in South Carolina
Briggs v. Elliott: ‘Because It Was Right’
Challenging White Supremacy — and Winning

C. Hope Clark

History, Climate, Politics, Scandal
Setting as Character
Write Your Memoir… Like It’s a Novel
Why Edisto? Why Any Setting?
Never Thought I’d Be a Writer
Too Shy to Write
Writing the Series
How a Character Becomes 3-D
Turning Your Ideas into Stories

Rebekah Compton

Fashionable Beauty in Botticelli’s Paintings
Illuminated Manuscripts
Raphael’s Madonnas
Venus’s Verdant Virtues
Painting Skin: Complexions, Cosmetics, and Reproduction in Renaissance Florence
Michelangelo and his Marbles
Ornamenting Psalmody: The Illuminated Choral Books of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence
Colors in Renaissance Florence
Rebekah Compton

Debra Conner

Edith Russell, Titanic Survivor
Margaret Mitchell, Author of Gone With the Wind
Emily Dickinson, Legendary Reclusive Poet
Debra Conner

Walter Curry

Writing Family History Book Series: The Narrative History Approach
Writing Family History Book Series: The Narrative Inquiry Approach
The Thompson Family: Untold Stories from the Past (1830 – 1960)
Martha Kitchings Seawright Ellison
South Carolina African American Confederate Pensioners
Lavinia C. Thompson – The Personal Story of Slavery and Civil War in South Carolina
Walter Curry

Suzie Parker Devoe

Women in Reconstruction: The Lives of Susie King Taylor, Charlotte Forten, and Laura Towne
Suzie Parker Devoe

L.M. Drucker

The Anthropology of Dance
Protecting Community Heritage Through Archaeology
Stories Untold: Slave Life in South Carolina
Earth Clues: Geology, Soils, and the Human Past
Workshop: Teaching Archaeology to Children
L.M. Drucker

Sterling "Skip" Eisiminger

The Joys of a University
The Joys of Writing
The Joys of Laughter
The Joys of Books
The Joys of Aging
Word Clay: Word Play: Q and A
Clemson: Significa and Trivia: Q and A
The Pleasures of Language: Malapropisms to Rhyming Slang
The Pleasures of Light Verse: Jabberwocky to Burma Shave
Sterling (Skip) Eisiminger

Jennie Holton Fant

A general reading and discussion of Sojourn’s in Charleston, followed by Q&A
A general reading and discussion of The Traveler’s Charleston, followed by Q&A
Jennie Holton Fant

Lacy Ford

Reconsidering James Petigru: Unionist and Civic Reformer in a Radical Age
The Importance of Higher Education for South Carolina: A Career Academic’s Reflection
Twenty-First Century South Carolina’s Economic Dilemma
A Twenty-First Century Meaning for the American Civil War: A Post-Cold War Reflection
History as a Way of Understanding: Irony and Innocence in American Life
“A Soul of Priceless Value”: The Contested Ideology of Slaveholding in the Lowcountry
“When the Lights Came On”: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina
Lacy Ford

John Fowler

Trotting Sally: The Roots and Legacy of a Folk Hero
Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go?
Appalachian Stories and Songs
History of Roots and Ethnic Music in South Carolina
John Fowler

Herb Frazier

An Ancient African Funeral Song Connects a Woman in Sierra Leone with a Woman in Coastal Georgia
How Did the Simple Act of Spending a Night In a Slave Cabin Become a Book
I Found the Source of My Gullah Memories in West Africa
Journalism 101: The News Gathering Technology Has Changed But the Fundaments of Truth and Accuracy Remain
During a Summer of Racial Turmoil, S.C. Poets and Writers Create “Ukweli” to Find Healing Truth
Herb Frazier

Nicholas Gambrell

Historic Rural Construction
One Piece at a Time: Moving Historic Structures
Silas Butts: The Legacy of a Moonshiner
Nicholas Gambrell

Chad Gibbs

The Iraq War
Genocide
World War II in Europe
Nazism
Jewish Resistance
The Holocaust
Chad Gibbs

Stanton Green

Archaeology and How We Know Things About the Past
Why No Snakes in Ireland (It’s Not Saint Patrick)
The History of Black Baseball
Baseball and the American Dream
The Origin of Baseball (It’s Not Cooperstown?)
Stanton Green

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