Louis Venters
Jan 19, 20161 min read
UPCOMING: Janet Ruhe-Schoen on Her New Book about Louis Gregory, at Our House!
My family is looking forward to hosting Janet Ruhe-Schoen to an intimate gathering at the end of the month to discuss her new book from...
Louis Venters
Aug 14, 20151 min read
Publisher's Discount on My Forthcoming Book!
I recently received from my publisher, the University Press of Florida, a flyer with a product code for a VERY steep discount on the...
Louis Venters
Jul 27, 20152 min read
In Memoriam: Hon. Elaine O. Harris
At the most recent meeting of the South Carolina State Board of Review of the National Register of Historic Places, I learned that a...
Louis Venters
Jun 24, 20152 min read
“Open-and-Shut Case”: Iran’s Bahá’ís and Religious Freedom at Home and Abroad
I’m pleased to share this post from the blog of the Religious Freedom On the seventh anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of the seven...
Louis Venters
Jun 18, 20151 min read
As True Today as Half a Century Ago
The attack on Emanuel AME Church is not just about Charleston, or South Carolina. And it certainly appears not to be about one individual...
Louis Venters
Jun 16, 20153 min read
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2015 S.C. Historic Preservation Awards
I wasn't able to attend the presentation at the State House, but I wanted to add my hearty congratulations to those honored this year...
Louis Venters
Apr 3, 20152 min read
NPR on Martin Luther King in Kingstree, SC
Linton Weeks of National Public Radio (who last summer interviewed me for a story about the Baha'i Faith as the largest religious...
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...
Louis Venters
Feb 10, 20151 min read
UPCOMING: Aunt Pearlie Sue and the Gullah Kinfolk in Hartsville, SC
Sunday, February 22, at 4:00 p.m., People to People and the South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation present Aunt Pearlie Sue...
