Aiken-Rhett House
Dr. Dale Rosengarten is proud to share students’ work from the first-year seminar she taught in Spring 2019, “Charleston as a Classroom.” Designed to introduce first-year students to the historical resources housed on every street in the city, the syllabus reserved Tuesday class meetings for lectures, guest speakers, document study, and discussions; on Thursdays, students took field trips to historic sites, archives, museums, cemeteries, churches, synagogues, and fellowship halls.
Class members were Bella Arcoria, Emma Baker, Jade Benson, Lauren M. Coggins, Alec Cohen, Molly S. Dougherty, Izzy (Taro) Floyd, Valentina Granada, McKenzie Heaton, Vance Lupton, Anna Martin, Madison T. McNamara, Danyel E. Meahan, Katie Nazaridis, Lauren O’Steen, Mallory Poston, Kendall Tally, Amy Vella, Asia C. Williams.
Dr. Rosengarten has created a booklet of highlights from field trip logs these students kept throughout the semester, along with some of their photographs. Click here to open and download the booklet in PDF.
January 10: Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, St. Philip and Calhoun Streets
January 17: The Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon, 122 E. Bay Street
January 24: The Old Slave Mart Museum, 6 Chalmers Street
Old Slave Mart
January 31: Historic Charleston Foundation, Captain James Misroon House, 40 East Bay St
February 7: Aiken-Rhett House, 48 Elizabeth Street
February 12: An Evening With Nikky Finney, City Gallery, Waterfront Park, 34 Prioleau St
February 13: The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting Street
February 21: Grimke Sisters Tour with Carol Ezell Gilson
Drayton Hall
February 28: Drayton Hall, 3380 Ashley Hall Road
March 7: French Protestant (Huguenot) Church, Church & Queen Streets, and Huguenot Society Library, 138 Logan Street
March 14: Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE), 90 Hasell Street
March 28: Coming Street Cemetery, 189 Coming Street
35 Chapel Street
April 2: 35 Chapel Street (ca. 1835-40), Built By Sylvia (Silvi) Miles, a Free Woman of Color, on Land Leased by William H. Holmes, A Planter who lived on Charlotte Street. Renovated by Drs. Louis and Andrea Weinstein
April 11: Catholic Diocese Archive & Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, 114 & 120 Broad Street
