Project Authors
The Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI) is a digital public history platform featuring exhibitions about the South Carolina Lowcountry region and historically interconnected sites in the Atlantic World. Exhibits are authors by historians and humanities scholars whose work is connected to Atlantic World, Southern, and Lowcountry history and culture.
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Arnold, Sara
Revisiting Prop Master (February 2019)
Ashton, Susanna
Samuel Williams and His World: Before the War and After the Union (April 2018)
Baker, Bruce E.
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas (February 2014)
Battle, Mary
African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations (2013)
Brown, Millicent
Somebody Had To Do It: First Children in School Desegregation (April 2015)
Charron, Katherine Mellen
Remembering Individuals, Remembering Communities: Septima P. Clark and Public History in Charleston (February 2017)
Cooper, Clerc
Somebody Had To Do It: First Children in School Desegregation (April 2015)
Crabtree, Mari N.
Desegregation at the College of Charleston (July 2023)
Dobrasko, Rebekah
Equalization Schools: South Carolina’s History of Unequal Education (April 2022)
Fraser-Rahim, Muhammad
Enslaved and Free African Muslims: Spiritual Wayfarers in the South and Lowcountry (October 2018)
Greene, Claire Y.
Keeper of the Gate: Philip Simmons Ironwork in Charleston, South Carolina (May 2014)
Greene, Harlan
Revisiting Prop Master (February 2019)
Hale, Jon
A History of Burke High School in Charleston, South Carolina since 1894 (July 2013)
Somebody Had To Do It: First Children in School Desegregation (April 2015)
Harris, John
Voyage of the Echo: The Trials of an Illegal Trans-Atlantic Slave Ship (May 2014)
Hays, Maureen
The Stono Preserve’s Changing Landscape (January 2020)
Howard, Courtney
Desegregation at the College of Charleston (July 2023)
Kelly, Brian
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas (February 2014)
Kelly, Joseph
Liverpool’s Abercromby Square and the Confederacy During the U.S. Civil War (December 2015)
López, Marina
Las Voces del Lowcountry (November 2017)
Mitchell, Kevin
Nat Fuller's Feast: The Life and Legacy of an Enslaved Cook in Charleston (April 2015)
O’Donovan, Susan Eva
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas (February 2014)
Philip Simmons Foundation, Inc
Keeper of the Gate: Philip Simmons Ironwork in Charleston, South Carolina (May 2014)
Polhemus, Neal D.
The James Poyas Daybook: An Account of a Charles Town Merchant, 1760-1765 (June 2014)
Powell, Jim
Liverpool’s Abercromby Square and the Confederacy During the U.S. Civil War (December 2015)
Powers, Bernard E.
Keeper of the Gate: Philip Simmons Ironwork in Charleston, South Carolina (May 2014)
Purcell, Katharine
The Pollitzer Family of South Carolina (June 2013)
Pyszka, Kimberly
The Stono Preserve’s Changing Landscape (January 2020)
Rabin, Shari
Finding Judaism in the Holy City (November 2022)
Sawula, Christopher
African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations: Atlantic World Context (2013)
Schuler, Jack
The Orangeburg Massacre (May 2013)
Shields, David S.
Nat Fuller's Feast: The Life and Legacy of an Enslaved Cook in Charleston (April 2015)
Short, Jessica
The Pollitzer Family of South Carolina (June 2013)
Smith, Hayden
Forgotten Fields: Inland Rice Plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry (February 2014)
Taylor, Kerry
The Charleston Hospital Workers Movement, 1968-1969 (November 2013)
Las Voces del Lowcountry (November 2017)
Veal, Erica
Desegregation at the College of Charleston (July 2023)
Vlach, John Michael
Keeper of the Gate: Philip Simmons Ironwork in Charleston, South Carolina (May 2014)
Waugh, Dwana
Charleston's Cigar Factory Strike, 1945-46 (May 2014)
West, Emily, assisted by undergraduate Sian David
Hidden Voices: Enslaved Women in the Lowcountry and U.S. South (December 2020)
Wheat, David
African Laborers for a New Empire: Iberia, Slavery, and the Atlantic World (February 2014)
White, John
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas (February 2014)
Williams, Christopher
Liverpool’s Abercromby Square and the Confederacy During the U.S. Civil War (December 2015)
Williams, Susan
Charleston's Cotton Factory, 1880-1900 (December 2015)
Wise, Carl
African Laborers for a New Empire: Iberia, Slavery, and the Atlantic World (February 2014)
Yuhl, Stephanie
Revisiting Prop Master (February 2019)