Dr. Robert R. Weyeneth

Professor of History
Director, Public History Program

Selected Publications

• "One Way to Foster Diversity in Public History," Public History News, 28:3 (June 2008). 
  
  
• "The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past", The Public Historian, 27:4 (Fall 2005), 11-44.
  
  
• Kapi'olani Park: A History (Honolulu: Kapiolani Park Preservation Society, 2002).
  
  
• "The Power of Apology and the Process of Historical Reconciliation", The Public Historian, 23:3 (Summer 2001), 9-38.
  
  
• Historic Preservation for a Living City: Historic Charleston Foundation, 1947-1997 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000).
  
  
• "Perspectives on a Pardon: Centralia Confronts its Past," Labor's Heritage: Quarterly of the George Meany Memorial Archives, 10:4 (Fall 1999/ Winter 2000), 26-33
  
  
• "Preservation Fieldwork at the University of South Carolina," CRM:Cultural Resource Management, 21:3 (1998), 25-27
  
  
• Historic Preservation and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 1960's: Identifying, Preserving, and Interpreting the Architecture of Liberation. A cultural resources survey and analysis, 1995.
  
  
• The Cold War in South Carolina, 1945-1991. Co-principal investigator. Final report for a three-year study of historical and cultural resources, prepared for the Legacy Resource Management Program, United States Department of Defense, 1995.
  
  
• "History, He Wrote: Murder, Politics, and the Challenges of Public History in a Community with a Secret," The Public Historian 16:2 (Spring 1994), 51-73.
  
  
• "National Parks and Preservation." In Encyclopedia of American Social History edited by Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993.
  
  

Collaborative Class Projects

• Camden African-American Heritage Project. Prepared for the City of Camden and the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office by History 712, Spring Semester 2006.
  
  
• Resources Associated with Segregation in Columbia, South Carolina, 1880-1960. Multiple Property Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Prepared by three classes of History 792, Fall Semester 2003 through Fall Semester 2005.
  
  
• University Neighborhood Historic District, Columbia, South Carolina. Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. 160 contributing properties. Prepared for the University Neighborhood Association by History 712, Spring Semester 2004.
  
  
• The Slave Quarters, Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site, Beech Island, South Carolina: Historic Structures Report. Prepared for the South Carolina State Park Service by History 712, Spring Semester 2002.
  
  
• Old Shandon Historic District. Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. 42 contributing properties. Prepared for the Old Shandon Neighborhood Association by History 792, Fall Semester 2002.
  
  
• A Historic Resources Survey of the Gadsden-Lancaster Streets Corridor, Chester, South Carolina. 229 properties. Prepared for the City of Chester and the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office by History 712, Spring Semester 2001.
  
  
• Jamestown Rural Historic District, Florence County, South Carolina. Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Prepared by History 792, Spring Semester 2000.
  
  
• Environmental Histories of Spring Branch Pond, Columbia, South Carolina. Prepared by History 448, Spring Semester 2000.