women’s history

Women’s Hidden Roles in Historic Preservation

    South Carolina Senate Chamber Portrait of Ann Pamela Cunningham, The “Founding Mother” of Historic Preservation. Photo credit South Carolina Legislature.    Many women and men have contributed so much to the field of historic preservation in America. However, as is too often the case, the role of many women has been hidden in …

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Crisis at Fort Sumter, a Narrative from the Diary of Mary Boykin Miller

  Earlier this year we promised to provide you with regular posts on primary resources for the Civil War in honor of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War.  But life happens, and we’ve had an awful lot of “life” happening here in the office lately, so we haven’t been very regular.  We’re hoping to …

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