The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Robert C. Winthrop: Conservative Opponent of Lincoln by Robert J. Moore The New Cambridge Modern History: A Comment by John M. Roberts South Carolina Ratifies the Federal Constitution by George C. Rogers, Jr. Tillman and the South Carolina Dispensary by Jack E. Tuttle The Place of History in a Liberal Arts Curriculum by Charles S. Davis

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. The Protestant Missionary in China: Problems of the First Treaty Period, 1842-1860 by Gordon K. Harrington French Communism and the Non-Communist Intellectuals, 1949 by Frederick F. Ritsch The Charles Town Board of Police, 1780-1782: A Study in Civil Administration under Military Occupation by George S. McCowen, Jr. Racism in the Administrations of Governor Cole Blease by Ronald D. Burnside The Twentieth Century: Age of the Dictators by Preston W. Slosson

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Some Aspects of British Radicalism, 1848-1855 by James W. Campbell The Emperor Hadrian as Pharaoh of Egypt by Richard H. Chowen Colonial Land Policies and the Slave Problem by Robert K. Ackerman The Tutor in the Ante-Bellum South by J. Issac Copeland

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. The Abortive Negotiations for a Free-trade Coalition to Defeat Tariff Reform: October, 1903, to February, 1904 by Richard A. Rempel The End of the American Watch on the Rhine by Alexander R. Stoesen Jim Crow Comes to South Carolina by Albert N. Sanders – Furman University Andrew Johnson: The Second Swing ‘Round the Circle by Robert J. Moore The Mature Religious Thought of John Adams by Robert B. Everett

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Jean-Paul Sartre and Social Responsibility by Fredrick F. Ritsch The Last Campaign of Major Patrick Ferguson by Robert D. Bass Costly Delusion: Inland Navigation in the South Carolina Piedmont by Daniel W, Hollis Did Jackson Disobey Orders by Hewitt D. Adams Clio and the Columnists by D. H. Gilpatrick

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. The English Parliament and the Theory of Corporation by Jerome V. Reel, Jr. Puritan Myths in the Background of American Foreign Policy by William F. Ricketson, Jr. Socialized Medicine —Some Aspects of the British Experience by J. M. Thorn Dollars from Scholars: The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation by Edward H. Beardsley

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Langdon Cheves and the War of 1812: Another Look at “National Honor” in South Carolina by Archie Vernon Huff, Jr. – Furman University Francis W. Pickens and the War Begins by John B. Edmunds, Jr. John Gary Evans against the Columbia State by Carlanna Hendrick Burnet Maybank and Charleston Politics in the New Deal Era by Marvin Cann

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. The Chinese Labor Issue in British Politics, 1904-1907 by E. B. Hannum – University of South Alabama A Statistical and Historical Analysis and Interpretation of British By-Elections, 1906-1909 by Michael C. Griffin Slavery and the Presence of Free Will by William F. Steirer Reconsideration: The University of South Carolina during Reconstruction by John Herbert Roper – University of North Carolina

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. The United States and Austria, 1918-1919: The Problem of National Self-Determination by Duane Myers The German Economy during World War II: Petroleum by Peter W. Becker Tillman’s Lieutenant: John Laurens Manning Irby by Jerry Slaunwhite Tillman’s Lieutenant: John Lowndes McLaurin by Rodger Stroup

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. The Role of the Commons House of Assembly in Proprietary South Carolina by Newton B. Jones Christopher Gadsden: Radical Idealist by E. Stanly Godbold The Slave Court System in Spartanburg County by William C. Henderson The American Nation in 1876 by Joseph Taylor Stukes

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Wade Hampton and the Rise of One Party Radical Orthodoxy in South Carolina by Richard Mark Gergel Governor Chamberlain and the End of Reconstruction by Robert J. Moore The Calhoun Papers Project: One Editor’s Valedictory (An Address to the South Carolina Historical Association, April 2, 1977) by W. Edwin Hemphill The Laurens Paper — Half-Way by George C. Rodgers, Jr. Fateful Legacy: White Southerners and the Dilemma of Emancipation by Dan T. Carter The South Carolina Bangers: A Forgotten Loyalist Regiment by Robert D. Bass

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. The Unionist Party and the Third Home Rule Crisis, 1912-1914” by W. S. Brockington, Jr. To Herald the Revolution: The Public Activists of G. V. Chicherin and Maksim Litvinov in Wartime Britain by William J. Lavery William W. Boyce: A Leader of the Southern Peace Movement by Roger P. Leemhuis South Carolina Leadership in the Southern Unification Movement, 1849-1850 by Thelma Jennings Soul of the South: James F. Byrnes and the Racial Issue in American Politics, 1911-1941 by Winfred B. Moore, Jr. Cole L. Blease and the Senatorial Campaign of 1924 by Daniel W. Hollis The Cuban Revolution in Historical Perspective

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Charleston Politics, 1900-1930: An Overview by Doyle W. Boggs Slave or Super-Slave: Who Really Did Labor in the Southern Cotton Fields by William F. Steirer, Jr. The Low Countries and the Quest for a Negotiated Peace, 1939-1940 by Birdsall S. Viault Protestant Church Spokesmen, Universal Military Training, and the Anti-Conscription Campaigns, 1940-1959 The Holiness-Pentecostal Revival in the Carolinas, 1896-1940 by Robert F. Martin The Duel in Nineteenth Century South Carolina: Custom Over Written Law by Nancy Torrance Matthews

Regional variation and change in the history of English strong verbs

This thesis investigates how the strong verb system inherited from Old English evolved in the regional dialects of Middle English (ca. 1100-1500). Old English texts preserve a relatively complex system of strong verbs, in which traditionally seven different ablaut classes are distinguished. This system becomes seriously disrupted from the Late Old English and Early Middle English periods onwards. As a result, many strong verbs die out, or have their ablaut patterns affected by sound change and morphological analogy, or transfer to the weak conjugation. In my thesis, I study the beginnings of two of these developments in two strong verb classes to find out what the evidence from Middle English regional dialects can tell us about their origins and diffusion. Chapter 2 concentrates on the strong-to-weak shift in Class III verbs, and investigates to what extent strong, mixed and weak past tense and participle forms vary in Middle English dialects, and whether the variation is more pronounced in the paradigms of specific verbs or sub-classes. Chapter 3 analyses the regional distribution of ablaut levelling in strong Class IV verbs throughout the Middle English period. The Class III and IV data for the Early Middle English period are drawn from A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, and the data for the Late Middle English period from a sub-corpus of files from The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English and The Middle English Grammar Corpus. Furthermore, The English Dialect Dictionary and Grammar are consulted as an additional reference point to find out to what extent the Middle English developments are reflected in Late Modern English dialects. Finally, referring to modern insights into language variation and change and linguistic interference, Chapter 4 discusses to what extent intra- and extra-linguistc factors, such as token and type frequency, stem structure and language contact, might correlate with the strong-to-weak shift and ablaut levelling in Class III and IV verbs in the Middle English period. The thesis is accompanied by six appendices that contain further information about my distinction of Middle English dialect areas (Appendix A), historical Class III and IV verbs (B and C) and the text samples and linguistic data from the Middle English text corpora (D, E and F).

Richard Yates: re-writing postwar American culture

This thesis explores the fiction of American author Richard Yates to propose that his work provides an insistent questioning and alternative vision of postwar American culture. Such an approach is informed by a revisionist account of four distinct yet interconnected areas of postwar culture: the role of the non-heroic soldier stepping in and out of World War II; suburbanisation and fashioning of anti-suburban performance; demarcation of gender roles and unraveling of sexual conservatism in the 1950s; consideration of what constituted the normative within postwar discourse and representations of mental illness in Yates’ work. These four spheres of interest form the backbone to this study in its combined aim of reclaiming Yates’ fiction in line with a more progressive historical framework while shaping a new critical appreciation of his fiction. Such analysis will be primed by an opening discussion that illustrates how Yates’ fiction has frequently been ensconced in a limited interpretative lens: an approach, that I argue, has kept Yates on the periphery of the canon and ultimately resulted in the neglect of an author who provided a rich, progressive and historically significant dialogue of postwar American life. This PhD arrives at a point when Yatesian scholarship is finally gaining momentum after the cumulative impact of a comprehensive biography, a faithful film adaptation of his seminal text Revolutionary Road (1961), plus the recent re-issue of his catalogue of work. An assessment as to why he remained on the margins of success for the duration of his career is therefore of pressing interest in light of this recent critical and commercial recognition.