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The history of Southern Jewry began in the coastal city of Charleston, SC in the first days of the colony. A revival of interest in this history has found researchers in several Southern states beginning to trace Jewish settlement, adaptation, and economic roles in the South. Among those projects is a rich archive of Southern Jewish life at the College of Charleston.

A McClellanville author and historian, he won a prestigious $275,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1989. \"All God's Dangers,\" his 1974 book on a black sharecropper's struggle for respect in Alabama, is considered a classic in oral history. A College of Charleston history professor, he is the author of \"Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885.\" When he looks at the students in his African-American history class, he sees cause for optimism. \"We've come a long way ... but I think there's always going to be a need for it in the sense that there's never going to really be enough time devoted to the kinds of (African-American) themes that need to be included in mainstream American history,\" he said. \"In the classroom, you end up whetting students' appetites and hoping they'll want to learn more. ... We need to mainstream (the material), but we should keep Black History Month.\"