Louis Venters
Aug 31, 20231 min read
Do Not Come for St. Helena Island!
A great story on SC Public Radio a few weeks ago about a proposed golf course development on St. Helena Island got me hot! Here's my...
Louis Venters
Feb 3, 20201 min read
UPCOMING: Book Talks in Beaufort, SC
Friends, family, and coworkers in and around Beaufort, SC, please join me for two book talks in the heart of Reconstruction in America...
Louis Venters
Sep 27, 20171 min read
How's This for a Patriotic Display?
Good gracious God! Looking for a quick and easy way to tell if NFL owners really care about black lives or are just in it for the money?...
Louis Venters
May 30, 20172 min read
What Kind of Country?: Redsicovering the Interracial Heart of Memorial Day
Yesterday among the many Memorial Day tributes I saw on social media, I was particularly struck by one from the Reconstruction Era...
Louis Venters
Nov 25, 20161 min read
The Origins of Thanksgiving: "To Heal the Wounds of the Nation"
It's really not about Pilgrims and Indians, y'all. Especially this year, with Natives from all over the continent suffering such...
Louis Venters
Feb 8, 20162 min read
What I'm Reading: Race and Historical Memory
If you're like me, then you often find yourself with an embarrassment of riches in terms of good and important things to read online. Of...
Louis Venters
Mar 14, 20151 min read
150th Anniversary of the Burning of Columbia: My Second Piece for the Good Men Project
I'm grateful that the Good Men Project picked up my recent essay, first published on this blog, about the burning of Columbia at the end...
Louis Venters
Mar 11, 20153 min read
The Burning of Columbia and the Persistence of Confederate Mythology
By the time my grandmother—in most other respects a thoughtful, reasonable, and flexible human being—was born in 1916, the orthodoxy...
