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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)