Louis Venters
Nov 12, 20191 min read
UPCOMING: Book Talk in Columbia, SC
Friends, family, and coworkers in the Midlands of South Carolina, please join me for a free lecture and discussion about my new book, A...
Louis Venters
Mar 14, 20151 min read
150th Anniversary of the Burning of Columbia: My Second Piece for the Good Men Project
I'm grateful that the Good Men Project picked up my recent essay, first published on this blog, about the burning of Columbia at the end...
Louis Venters
Mar 11, 20153 min read
The Burning of Columbia and the Persistence of Confederate Mythology
By the time my grandmother—in most other respects a thoughtful, reasonable, and flexible human being—was born in 1916, the orthodoxy...