300 Episodes

  1. Episode 160: The Horn Work: Marion Square’s Tabby Fortress

    Published: 5/29/2020
  2. Episode 159: Hucksters’ Paradise: Mobile Food in Urban Charleston, Part 2

    Published: 5/22/2020
  3. Episode 158: Hucksters’ Paradise: Mobile Food in Urban Charleston, Part 1

    Published: 5/15/2020
  4. Episode 157: Dining and Drinking in Charleston Before the Food and Beverage Industry

    Published: 5/7/2020
  5. Episode 156: A Moderate Trot through the History of Street Speed

    Published: 5/1/2020
  6. Episode 155: Hemp Cultivation in Early South Carolina

    Published: 4/24/2020
  7. Episode 154: Charleston at 350: The Legacy of Founding Decisions

    Published: 4/17/2020
  8. Episdoe 153: Quarantine in Charleston Harbor, 1698–1949

    Published: 4/9/2020
  9. Episode 152: The Scandalous Black Dance of 1795, Part 2

    Published: 4/3/2020
  10. Episode 151: The Scandalous Black Dance of 1795, Part 1

    Published: 3/27/2020
  11. Episode 150: Pandemic and Panic: Influenza in 1918 Charleston

    Published: 3/19/2020
  12. Episode 149: Yamboo: An Enslaved Muslim in Early South Carolina

    Published: 3/13/2020
  13. Episode 148: His Majesty’s Warships in Charleston Harbor

    Published: 3/6/2020
  14. Episode 147: Self-Purchase: The Price of Freedom from Slavery

    Published: 2/28/2020
  15. Episode 146: Private Manumission: An Intimate Path to Freedom

    Published: 2/21/2020
  16. Episode 145: Public Manumission: A Reward for Remarkable Service

    Published: 2/14/2020
  17. Episdoe 144: Defining Charleston’s Free People of Color

    Published: 2/7/2020
  18. Episode 143: The Carolina Coffee House of London

    Published: 1/30/2020
  19. Episode 142: The Myth of the Holy City

    Published: 1/24/2020
  20. Episode 141: The South Carolina Revolution of 1719, Part 2

    Published: 1/17/2020

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Dr. Nic Butler, historian at the Charleston County Public Library, explores the less familiar corners of local history with stories that invite audiences to reflect on the enduring presence of the past in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.