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 22, 2017
- 1 min
Training the Next Generation of Public Historians in South Carolina
Special thanks to Michael Bedenbaugh, intrepid executive director of the Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation, for visiting my...
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
- Feb 10, 2017
- 2 min
Smalls Appointed to Federal Commission Preserving Gullah Heritage
Please join me in congratulating Ms. Victoria Smalls, Director of Development and Public Relations at Penn Center on St. Helena Island,...
Louis Venters
- Jan 11, 2017
- 1 min
UPCOMING: Book Talk at Unitarian Church, Greenville, SC
This Saturday, January 14, 2017, I'll be speaking at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Greenville, South Carolina, the city where...
Louis Venters
- Dec 21, 2016
- 1 min
"A Place Where the Skin I'm in Feels Like It's Supposed to Be"
Here's a new one (to me) from the Carolina Chocolate Drops, "Country Girl" from the album Leaving Eden (2012). I find this song and video...
Louis Venters
- Nov 11, 2016
- 1 min
UPCOMING: Interfaith Partners of SC Annual Conference
This Sunday, November 13, Interfaith Partners of South Carolina, a statewide non-profit that aims to promote “understanding and...
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...
Louis Venters
- Feb 19, 2016
- 1 min
Announcing Michael Twitty's New Book on the Culinary History of Black Southerners
Culinary historian Michael Twitty has just announced that his new book, The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African-American Culinary...
