8:30 a. m. – 9:30 a.m. Registration
SESSION I 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Another Look at the Icons of Nineteenth-Century South Carolina: New
Perspectives on Calhoun, Hampton, and Tillman
Chair and Commentator: Hyman Rubin, III (Columbia College)
Liberty and Union: John C. Calhoun and the Preservation of the Union. Lewie Reece (Anderson University)
‘My Children on the Field’: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause. Rod Andrew, Jr. (Clemson University)
The One-Eyed King: The Reforms of Ben Tillman as the Reason for the Absence of Populism in South Carolina. Kevin Krause (Clemson University)
Getting Around in South Carolina: Oceans, Rivers and Streets
Chair and Commentator: W. Eric Emerson (Charleston Library Society)
“The Most Bold and Daring Act of the Age”: A History of the U.S.S. Philadelphia, 1798-1804. Abby Garland (Bob Jones University)
Operating by Charters: The Legal Regulation of Ferries in South Carolina from 1790 to 1898. Edward Salo (Brockington and Associations, Inc.)
Between the Wheels: The Eclipse of the Electric Streetcar in the Post-War New South. Jeffrey M. Leatherwood (West Virginia University)
Changes to the Social Order in South Carolina
Chair and Commentator: Marcia Synnott (University of South Carolina)
Let No Man Put Asunder: South Carolina’s Law of Divorce, 1895-1950. Kellen Funk (Bob Jones University)
Offending Decent People: Murder, Masculinity and the (Homosexual) Menace in Cold War Era Charleston. Santi Thompson (University of South Carolina)
George Croft Williams and South Carolina Social Work, 1918-1934. Elaine Townsend (University of South Carolina)
SESSION II 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Blacks, Whites and Reds: Politics in 20th Century South Carolina
Chair: Kevin Witherspoon (Lander University)
Commentator: Cherisse Jones-Branch (Arkansas State University)
Archibald Rutledge’s “Negro Problem:” Plantation Nostalgia and Civil Rights in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Jason Morgan Ward (Yale University)
Straddling the Fence: Politics and Ambiguity on the Eve of “Brown.” John White (College of Charleston)
The 1965 South Carolina Red Scare: Anti-Communism Free Speech and Student Activism in the Palmetto State. Areli A. Keeney (University of South Carolina)
Benevolence and Evangelism in Lowcountry South Carolina
Chair and Commentator: A. V. Huff, Jr. (Furman University)
Death and Community in the Late-Colonial Lowcountry: A View from the Journal of Archibald Simpson. Peter N. Moore (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
The Evolution of Women’s Benevolence in Nineteenth Century South Carolina. Vanessa McNamara (College of Charleston)
Time Consciousness in Historical Perspective
Chair: Brenda Schoolfield (Bob Jones University)
Commentator: Cheryl Wells (University of Wyoming)
Changing Times: Occupational Change and Temporal Perception among Old Order Amish. Julie Phillips (Bob Jones University)
Arguing Time: A Look at Two Philosophic Views of Time in the Clarke-Leibniz Debate. David Woodworth (Bob Jones University)
“Six Days Shalt Thou Labor”: Work, Sabbath Observance, and Cultural Conversion in John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians. Lincoln Austin Mullen (Bob Jones University)
Luncheon and Keynote Address 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p. m.
Bob McNair and Lyndon Johnson: The New Deal Legacy. Philip G. Grose, Jr.
Mr. Grose’s recent highly acclaimed biography of Governor Robert E. McNair will
be available in the Archives & History Center gift shop during the meeting. Mr.
Grose will be available after the luncheon to sign copies.
SESSION III 2:15 p. m. – 3:30 p.m.
Widowed South Carolina Nineteenth Century Plantation Managers
Chair and Commentator: Dorothy Pratt (University of South Carolina)
Like Mother, Like Daughter: Harriott Pinckney Horry of Hampton Plantation, 1748-1830. Constance Schulz (University of South Carolina)
Martha Rutledge Kinloch Singleton of Kensington Plantation: Profile of a South Carolina Widow. Lindsay Crawford (University of South Carolina)
A New Look at Military Leadership: Generals and Indian Chiefs
Chair and Commentator: Tyler Boulware (West Virginia University)
Indian Leadership in the Early American Republic. Sarah E. Miller (University of South Carolina, Salkechatchie)
In Defense of Thomas Sumter. Tom Powers (University of South Carolina, Sumter)
Charleston’s Controversial General: Roswell S. Ripley. Jennifer Zoebelein (College of Charleston/The Citadel)