America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story

FAIN: ES-50571-14

University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC 29208-0001)
Joseph Brent Morris (Project Director: March 2014 to May 2016)

A three-week institute for thirty school teachers on the history of Reconstruction and its aftermath in South Carolina, Georgia, and the Sea Islands.

This three-week institute will bring (30) k-12 teachers together from across the country to learn more about one of the most neglected and misunderstood periods in our nation’s history, and how that history has been shaped by episodes emerging from the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. History will be interspersed with literature, and visual essays to demonstrate and provide a rich interdisciplinary experience. Three broad topics over the course of the institute will include: A prelude to Reconstruction, Reconstruction and its Aftermath, and Historical Memory and the Modern Civil Rights Movement. Each topic will cover significant issues, critical episodes, and turning points in American history. The actions and writings of key individuals and their impact on Reconstruction will also be examined.

Media Coverage

Reconstruction Revisited (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Margaret Evans
Publication: Lowcountry Weekly
Date: 8/13/2014
Abstract: Media coverage of NEH award for "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story"
URL: http://www.lcweekly.com/local-color/3631-reconstruction-revisited

Beaufort County Looks Back on Reconstruction (Media Coverage)
Author(s): David Lauderdale
Publication: Island Packet
Date: 6/15/2015
Abstract: Media coverage of NEH award and Reconstruction history in Beaufort, SC.
URL: http://www.scnow.com/news/state/article_7f51ecd4-12e2-11e5-82bd-e316b986a526.html

University of South Carolina Beaufort professor to conduct Reconstruction institute (Media Coverage)
Publication: Bluffton Today
Date: 7/9/2016
Abstract: Coverage of NEH award for "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story"
URL: http://www.blufftontoday.com/bluffton-news/2014-08-10/university-south-carolina-beaufort-professor-conduct-reconstruction#.V4EZtLsrK9J

Beaufort highlighting its Reconstruction role (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Robert Behre
Publication: Charleston Post and Courier
Date: 8/12/2014
Abstract: Coverage of NEH award for "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story," and Beaufort's Reconstruction History
URL: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140824/PC1610/140829716/1177/beaufort-highlighting-its-reconstruction-role

Revisiting Reconstruction (Media Coverage)
Publication: Bartography
Date: 7/27/2015
Abstract: Media coverage of NEH award for "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story"
URL: http://chrisbarton.info/blog/2015/07/revisiting-reconstruction-week-of-july-26-2015.html

Lowcountry college visits Summerton sites related to famous case (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Robert Joseph Baker
Publication: ManningLive
Date: 8/15/2015
Abstract: Media coverage of NEH institute study trip to Summerton, SC, site of the historic Briggs v Elliott desegregation case.
URL: http://manninglive.com/2015/08/15/lowcountry-college-visits-summerton-sites-related-to-famous-case/

Associated Products

Reconstruction Sesquicentennial Lectures (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Reconstruction Sesquicentennial Lectures
Author: J. Brent Morris
Author: Orville Vernon Burton
Author: Stephen Wise
Abstract: Lecture series, in conjunction with the South Carolina Humanities festival, that focused on the memory and commemoration of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era in American history and culture.
Date Range: June 10-11, 2016
Location: Beaufort, SC
Primary URL: http://schumanities.org/annualevents/humanitiesfestival/
Primary URL Description: SC Humanities festival

The Untold Story: Visual Essays on America's Reconstruction (Book)
Title: The Untold Story: Visual Essays on America's Reconstruction
Editor: J. Brent Morris
Editor: Minuette Floyd
Abstract: Through the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of South Carolina Beaufort hosted a three-week summer institute for 30 K-12 teachers from July 12 - August 1, 2015 as a workshop for educators to learn more 3 about the history of the Reconstruction Era, and to demonstrate how that history has been influenced by events and personalities originating from the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Participants created visual essays as final projects for the institute. Staff and visiting faculty were quite impressed at the quality of these works, and twelve are presented in this volume. Together, they shed new light on this critical period of American history, and they all contain the promise that the story of America’s Reconstruction will no longer be neglected in the nation’s primary and secondary schools.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://uscb.edu/americasreconstruction/Binder1.pdf
Primary URL Description: The Untold Story: Visual Essays on America's Reconstruction
Access Model: available in print and online free access
Publisher: Lowcountry Scholars Press
Type: Edited Volume
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

"Telling the Untold Story" (Web Resource)
Title: "Telling the Untold Story"
Author: J. Brent Morris
Abstract: "Telling the Untold Story" is a web resources that promotes the highlights of the 2015 NEH summer institute "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story," a collection of primary source resources from the Reconstruction Era, and select videos of 2015 institute faculty presentations.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://uscb.edu/americasreconstruction/telling-the-untold-story.html
Primary URL Description: Telling the Untold Story website

Walter Edgar's Journal (NPR): Chronicling "Reconstruction" Sites in South Carolina (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Walter Edgar's Journal (NPR): Chronicling "Reconstruction" Sites in South Carolina
Director: Walter B. Edgar
Producer: Alfred Turner
Abstract: National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis called the Reconstruction Era an "often-ignored or misunderstood period in our rich history" but one that bridges the nation's Civil War and its civil rights movement. Now, the Park Service has begun chronicling the historic sites in South Carolina that tell the Reconstruction story. Michael Allen, a community partnership specialist with the National Parks Service in Charleston, will be working with groups and communities interested in taking part. He joins Dr. Edgar, along with Dr. Brent Morris, professor of history at USC Beaufort and Director of the NEH Summer Institute "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story" to talk about facts and myths of this important period of American history.
Date: 1/15/2016
Primary URL: http://southcarolinapublicradio.org/post/chronicling-reconstruction-sites-south-carolina-1
Primary URL Description: Walter Edgar's Journal (NPR): Chronicling "Reconstruction" Sites in South Carolina
Access Model: NPR/SC ETV Radio broadcast
Format: Radio
Format: Web

"Telling the Untold Story" (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: "Telling the Untold Story"
Author: J. Brent Morris
Abstract: Online archive of primary source resources from the Reconstruction Era.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://uscb.edu/americasreconstruction/telling-the-untold-story.html
Primary URL Description: "Telling the Untold Story" Reconstruction primary sources archive
Access Model: free online

Keynote Address at the Landmark Conference for the Confederation of South Carolina Local Historical Societies, “Reconstructing Reconstruction: 150 Years of Remembering and Forgetting the Post Civil War Era,” March 24, 2016). (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Keynote Address at the Landmark Conference for the Confederation of South Carolina Local Historical Societies, “Reconstructing Reconstruction: 150 Years of Remembering and Forgetting the Post Civil War Era,” March 24, 2016).
Abstract: Keynote address examines the public commemorations and remembrances of Reconstruction alongside the Lost Cause in American historiography, 1865-2015.
Author: J. Brent Morris
Date: 3/24/2016
Location: Beaufort, SC
Primary URL: http://www.palmettohistory.org/confederation/2016RegistrationPacket.pdf
Primary URL Description: Confederation of South Carolina Local Historical Societies annual meeting program

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