The Aiken house in Charleston, South Carolina is one of the best-preserved nineteenth-century domestic dwellings in the city. It offers scholars unparalleled opportunities to interpret multiple facets of antebellum life. This thesis examines the material remains of William and Harriet Aikens' ...
Farmer In the late 1990s, when journalist Tony Horwitz traveled the South in his quest to understand the tenacious hold the Civil War still has on many in the region, he found that in South Carolina "hardly a day . . . passed without some snippet about the Civil War appearing in the ...