Middleton Place Foundation Expands Tuition Assistance Program
The Post and Courier recently published an article by Adam Parker highlighting The Middleton Scholars Education Assistance Fund’s $250,000 dollar-for-dollar...
American Landmark: Charles Duell and the Rebirth of Middleton Place Book Launch
Middleton Place Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of American Landmark: Charles Duell and the Rebirth of Middleton Place Available...
Middleton Place Foundation Receives NEH Grant
Middleton Place Foundation has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the project “Enslavement...
The following article appeared in The Washington Post on October 1, 2021 by Ariel Felton The full article can be...
Carolina Gold Rice: A Global Industry, A Cultural Identity
Perhaps no other cultural staple – both in terms of actual subsistence and in identity-making – is as important or...
Black Rice or Carolina Gold?
Despite observations of rice cultivation along the West African coast from the earliest[15thcentury]Portuguese voyages, remarkably, until the twentieth century...
Walter Edgar’s Journal: Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Charleston Renaissance Artist
Author Dwight McInvaill and internationally renowned South Carolina Artist Jonathan Green recently joined Walter Edgar in conversation about Alice Ravenel...
Exploring Independence
John Adams wrote, “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.
It Should Have Happened Sooner
On June 19, 1865, freedom came to the last slaveholding area in the South, Galveston, TX. It had been a...
FLAG DAY – JUNE 14
In 1777 during the American War for Independence, the Second Continental Congress (Arthur Middleton was a member) passed a resolution...
Ashley’s Sack. How Much Can One Bag Carry?
It is a simple sack. Measuring thirty-three inches long by sixteen inches wide, about the size of a long, narrow...
Remembering Barbara Doyle, Longtime Historian of the Middleton Place Foundation
How Do We Know What We Know? The short answer is: proper research technique. But, like all places that are...