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Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., ed. Citizen-Scholar: Essays in Honor of Walter Edgar. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. Illustrations. 296 pp. $34.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61117-750-3.
Reviewed by James Farmer (University of South Carolina Aiken) Published on H-SC (April, 2018) Commissioned by David W. Dangerfield (University of South Carolina - Salkehatchie)
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Douglas R. Egerton, Robert L. Paquette, eds. The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. 982 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6282-2.
Reviewed by Michael E. Woods (Marshall University) Published on H-SC (August, 2017) Commissioned by David W. Dangerfield
ed. Constance B. Schulz. The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen Digital Edition, vol. 1: Revolutionary War & Early Republic (1770–1792). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2017. http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/PNKY.html. $130.00 (individual license), ISBN 978-0-8139-3892-9.
Michael Lewis. The Coming of Southern Prohibition: The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. 312 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-6298-9.
Reviewed by Fritz Hamer (South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum) Published on H-SC (April, 2017) Commissioned by David W. Dangerfield
