The Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), an online exhibitions platform hosted by the Lowcountry Digital Library, has published three new exhibitions. One of the new exhibitions presents the work of the late Philip Simmons, a master blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina.
Launched in March 2014, the LDHI is funded by a major grant from the Donnelley Foundation and is a partnership with the Lowcountry Digital Library, the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center, and the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW). A major goal of the project is to highlight underrepresented histories in the Lowcountry and in historically interconnected Atlantic World sites.
RELATED: Read more about the initiative and its other online exhibitions.
The new exhibitions are:
Project Author: Dwana Waugh, North Carolina A&T State University
This online exhibition provides an overview of Charleston’s Cigar Factory Strike in 1945-46 as a distinctive moment in South Carolina’s history when grassroots alliances led to massive protests and social justice advocacy.
Project Partner: Philip Simmons Foundation, Inc.
Keeper of the Gate presents the work of Philip Simmons (1912-2009), a master blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina.
Project Author: John Harris, Johns Hopkins University
Voyage of the Echo examines the world of the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade by reconstructing the voyage of the slave ship Echo in 1858.
College of Charleston graduate assistants Bradley Blankemeyer, Beth Gniewek, and Andrew Cuadrado, all of whom are graduating in May 2014, contributed to the LDHI project.
