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 Lecture and Book Signing"Relieve Us of this Burthen": American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782
February 7
Join Assistant Director Carl Borick as he discusses his new book, "Relieve Us of this Burthen": American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782 (USC Press, January 2012). The new book focuses on the prisoners that were captured by the British in South Carolina during the Revolution, many of whom were held in Charleston. The work examines the circumstances of their capture, the difficult conditions they faced during imprisonment and their extraordinary experiences afterward. This is the first book-length study to be published concerning Revolutionary War prisoners in the South. Meet the author and be among the first to purchase this important new work.
Charleston's Women Naturalists
March 27
In commemoration of Women's History Month, Museum Archivist, Jennifer Scheetz, will discuss several of Charleston's own women naturalists. See examples of their art as they painted the world they studied. Take a closer look at Maria Martin Bachman, Ida Morris Jervey and Alice Ravenel Huger Smith and their works deposited here in the Charleston Museum. Please join us for this fascinating glimpse of sometimes overlooked gems, several of which have never been exhibited.
Archaeology of the Redan at South Adger's Wharf
April 17
Charleston is the only walled city in British colonial North America. Yet this defensive feature, completed in 1706, is largely invisible, in both the landscape and the imagination. Excavations done in 2008 and 2009 of the redan, or salient angle, at Tradd Street provided the first opportunity in forty years to explore a section of the wall, and the first in nearly a century to expose the foundation. Join the Museum's Curator of Historical Archaeology, Martha Zierden, to hear new details on construction, maintenance, and eventual abandonment of the city's early colonial defenses and see several items that will go on permanent exhibit in our Lowcountry History Hall.
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