This work examines the evolution of eugenic ideology in South Carolina during the Progressive Era by following relevant discussions published in The State newspaper. Between 1891 and 1939, The State newspaper provided a platform for discussions about eugenic ideology to be disse…
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From 1986 to 2000, the South Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy actively negotiated influence for its organization at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum (SCCRRM) as an important museum stakeholder. While 1986 marked a low point for UDC…
The life of Joshua Gordon and his intellectual product, Witchcraft Book (1784) gives access to the backcountry of South Carolina. Witchcraft Book is exemplary of syncretism in the Atlantic world, influenced by multiple European traditions, understandings of science in the early …
Charleston, South Carolina is a city valued for its history and culture, but rising ocean levels have caused fears for its safety. Ensemble Empirical Modal Decomposition (EEMD) is a process through which data may be broken from its original, layered state into the major componen…
This dissertation argues the establishment of five Afro-Palmetto Poets as an African American poetry collective in the American literary canon due to their reformation of the South Carolina poetry aesthetic. Theory for dimensions of place analyzes the impact of these poets on 21…
This study focuses on the neighborhood of I’On in the Town of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The neighborhood is the result of the New Urbanism movement of the late 20th century that promotes three principles: density, walkability and the human scale. The New Urbanism-inspired …
Prior scholars have devoted much attention to how tourism influenced the U.S. South’s culture and economy in the era following the Civil War and Reconstruction. The role of hotels as spaces for this contribution to occur has gone understudied, however. Hotels in fact shaped the …
The historiography of Denmark Vesey is quite extensive. Historians have contributed a vast amount of scholarship pertaining to Vesey himself, that often the other 130 alleged co-conspirators involved in the Workhouse trials are habitually left behind in the endnotes. Names such …
This thesis chronologically examines U.S. sex offender registration law through three theoretical lenses - populist punitiveness, labeling, and performance – beginning during the period of Chinese Exclusion and ending in the present. Using qualitative legal and textual analysis …
The goal of this work is to provide researchers, preservationists, and historians with an in-depth look of the treatment of graves and gravesites over time by Bethel United Methodist Church and Old Bethel United Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina. This data can hopef…
During the late twentieth century, roughly between the 1970s and the 1990s, South Carolina’s textile industry experienced a crisis triggered by growing imports and modernization. This crisis led to mass layoffs and plant closures on a scale previously unheard-of within the Piedm…
While New Hope Christian Church has a stable membership, it does not appear that New Hope consistently reflects their Christian beliefs outside the church. It is the author’s thesis that the development and implementation of a retreat to engage the leadership of New Hope Christi…
The purpose of this ministry project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a collegiate ministry that will increase spiritual growth of emerging adults (ages 18-26) through discipleship(spiritual transformation) within the Second Nazareth Baptist Church (SNBC), Columbia, SC and…
This thesis explores the crime variously referred to as modern-day slavery, forced labor, or human trafficking. I define “human trafficking” as the coercion of one human being by another in order to extract labor and various forms of servitude, in criminal circumstances that res…
The purpose of this ministry project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a collegiate ministry that will increase spiritual growth of emerging adults (ages 18-26) through discipleship (spiritual transformation) within the Second Nazareth Baptist Church (SNBC), Columbia, SC an…
The purpose of this project was to establish the assimilation process of Airport Baptist Church by introducing changes that will ultimately result in an increase in the number of new members actively participating in the mission of the church. The first chapter is an introductio…
This dissertation examines the writings and literature surrounding elite, white South Carolina women from 1859 and 1861 to trace their increasing political consciousnesses surrounding their state’s secession and the threat of civil war. Their diaries and letters reveal that thou…
This study focuses on the contiguous neighborhoods of Union Heights and Windsor Place in the City of North Charleston, South Carolina. The neighborhoods suffer from a history of racial segregation, environmental injustices, and loss of social and physical fabric. In addition to …
The Moravian mission to Africans enslaved in Purrysburg, South Carolina was carried out from the fall of 1738 to the spring of 1740. Peter Böhler and his assistant George Schulius attempted to appeal both to their African audience and to the slaveholders who controlled life in t…