Louis Venters
- May 30, 2017
- 2 min
What Kind of Country?: Redsicovering the Interracial Heart of Memorial Day
Yesterday among the many Memorial Day tributes I saw on social media, I was particularly struck by one from the Reconstruction Era...
Louis Venters
- Feb 14, 2017
- 3 min
Charleston School District Set to Demolish Historic Black School Building in Favor of Home Depot
Thanks to Joseph McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project for sharing this blog post from our historic preservation colleague Brittany...
Louis Venters
- Feb 10, 2017
- 3 min
Just in Time, a New Reconstruction Era National Monument
On this Martin Luther King Day, I am happy to add my voice to the chorus that has been thanking the Obama Administration for the...
Louis Venters
- Sep 29, 2016
- 1 min
The Slave Dwelling Project: Shining a Light on Our Hidden History
I was really sorry not to be able to make it to the third annual conference of the Slave Dwelling Project earlier this month in Columbia,...
Louis Venters
- Sep 21, 2016
- 1 min
Fellow White Americans: Search Deep, and Grow Up
Fellow white Americans: By every conceivable measurement of human well-being, the lives of my two sons--and those of all others who look...
Louis Venters
- Aug 26, 2016
- 2 min
Happy 100th Birthday to "America's Best Idea"!
This week the National Park Service turns one hundred years old, and it's making me all mushy inside just thinking about it! The National...
Louis Venters
- Aug 4, 2016
- 2 min
Opening of FMU's New Center for Health Sciences and Hopes for a Better Florence
This morning, Francis Marion University hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Luther F. Carter Center for Health Sciences in...
Louis Venters
- Jun 24, 2016
- 3 min
Dear United (For the Time Being) Kingdom,
Dear United (for the time being) Kingdom, Greetings from across the pond! We heard about what happened yesterday, and we wanted to give...
Louis Venters
- May 7, 2016
- 3 min
'Triumph of Light over Darkness': Rebuilding Bosnia's Religious and Cultural Heritage
Today in Banja Luka, the second city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and de facto capital of that country's Serb-dominated half, thousands of...
Louis Venters
- Mar 15, 2016
- 2 min
On My Reading List: New Novel Evokes Jim Crow-Era Charleston & Interracial Cooperation
I just saw this glowing review of Michele Moore's The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston (University of South Carolina Press, 2016) in...
