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The Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. will speak at the Citadel on Tuesday, November 11th at 7pm in Holliday Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public!

Middleton Place invites visitors to see what life on a Low Country plantation was like in the 18th and 19th centuries. On Nov. 15 and 16, the National Historic Landmark will welcome visitors to immerse themselves in Plantation Days, an annual event reflecting the activities of a Charleston plantation during the harvest season. Each day, […]

On January 15th, 2015, the South Carolina Historical Society will reopen on the third floor of the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library. For more information regarding the relocation of South Carolina’s largest private repository of books, letters, maps, journals, drawings, and photographs, please visit the South Carolina Historical Society’s official website at southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org.

“In 1793 the City of Charleston passed a law requiring citizens to try to revive persons who were “apparently dead” or in a state of “suspended animation.” What was the science behind this plan to re-animate bodies, and was it successful or simply ghoulish? Join CCPL’s historian, Dr. Nic Butler, for a discussion of the […]

[Image Source: http://history.cofc.edu/about/faculty-and-staff/poole-wscott.php] W. Scott Poole, History Professor at the College of Charleston, will be signing copies of his newest and seventh publication, Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror, at the Charleston County Public Library on Monday, October 20th, at 6pm.  

     Kevin Boyle,  professor of twentieth century American history at Northwestern University and winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his publication, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, will be speaking at the College of Charleston on October 22. The exact time and location will […]

Join the College of Charleston Graduate Historical Society next Friday, October 3rd (2-5pm) for the Annual Archive Crawl! We will be visiting the Avery Research Center, Addlestone’s Special Collections, Charleston County Public Library and the South Carolina Historical Society.

On September 27, 2912 at 7pm historian Joseph Crespino will present Strom Thurmond’s America in Bond Hall room 165 at The Citadel.  A book signing will follow the lecture.