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Review published on Monday, April 10, 2017
Author: 
Michael Lewis
Reviewer: 
Fritz Hamer

Hamer on Lewis, 'The Coming of Southern Prohibition: The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915'


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

Review published on Thursday, December 22, 2016
Author: 
Steve Estes
Reviewer: 
Robert Greene

Greene on Estes, 'Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement'


Steve Estes. Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 232 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2232-3.

Reviewed by Robert Greene (University of South Carolina)
Published on H-SC (December, 2016)
Commissioned by David W. Dangerfield

Discussion published by Bob Karachuk on Friday, December 16, 2016

Pinckney Statesmen Papers Announces Publication of Volume 1

The Pinckney Statesmen Papers is delighted to announce the publication of Volume 1 of The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen Digital Edition. The volume is available online now through Rotunda, the digital imprint of the University of Virginia Press, at http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/PNKY.html. PREVIEW ACCESS IS FREE TO ALL THROUGH JANUARY 31.

Discussion published by Mary Battle on Friday, December 16, 2016

CONFERENCE UPDATES AND UPCOMING CFP DEADLINE ON DECEMBER 15th! "Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic Word," College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, June 14-17, 2017

CONFERENCE UPDATES AND UPCOMING CFP DEADLINE ON DECEMBER 15th!

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