Document Type

Newsletter

Publication Date

Spring 2025

Abstract

Have Digital Exhibit, Will Travel: “Forest to Furniture” featured at Sumter Museum in early 2025 … p.3

Officers at War: Rethinking Southern Masculinity, Honor, and Violence in the Civil War Era / Dr. Patrick F. Doyle … p.10

Researching Politics, Finance, and Agricultural Subsidies in the Jim Crow Era / Robert Ferguson … p.14

The Unsung Heroes of History / Beth Bilderback … p.16

Primary Sources: Authors Rely on SCL Holdings for Their Research … p.20

The Cost of the Vote: George Elmore and the Battle for the Ballot … p.20

Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina … p.21

A Gamecock Odyssey: University of South Carolina Sports in the Independent Era … p.21

The Santee Canal: South Carolina’s First Commercial Highway … p.22

The Slow Undoing: The Federal Courts and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in South Carolina … p.22

Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina … p. 23

Fall Events Recap … p.24

Researching Simms and Stowe / Dr. Alexander J. Ashland … p.25

A Thriving Business Community Built around Deathways / Dr. Aaron Brown … p.28

Welcome, Brittany Champion … p.33

A Fond Farewell: Beth Bilderback … p.34

Rowe Address One of Just Three Library Copies in the World … p.35

Memorials & Honoraria … p.36

In Memoriam [John Spratt] … p.36

Letter from the President / Beryl M. Dakers … p.37

Letter from the Dean of Libraries / David Banush … p.38

Report from the Director / Nathan Saunders … p.38

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Executive Committee

Ms. Beryl M. Dakers, President

Ms. Vickie Eslinger, Vice-president

Dr. Bobby Donaldson, Vice-president

Dr. Nathan Saunders, Secretary-treasurer

Publications Committee Chair

Lynn Robertson

Editor

Thom Harmon

Graphic Designer

Sherry Simmons

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