Speakers Bureau Roster Speaker's Bureau // Roster / Topics 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 Debra Conner Edith Russell, Titanic Survivor Margaret Mitchell, Author of Gone With the Wind Emily Dickinson, Legendary Reclusive Poet 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 Suzie Parker Devoe Women in Reconstruction: The Lives of Susie King Taylor, Charlotte Forten, and Laura Towne 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 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 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 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 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 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 Nicholas Gambrell Historic Rural Construction One Piece at a Time: Moving Historic Structures Silas Butts: The Legacy of a Moonshiner Chad Gibbs The Iraq War Genocide World War II in Europe Nazism Jewish Resistance The Holocaust 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?)