From his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina, to his prominence on the Washington, D.C., political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman
Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948) played a crucial role in the development of Near Eastern studies at a time when it was undergoing disciplinary and institutional change and against the backdrop of dramatic
Born a slave in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1839, Robert Smalls won freedom for himself and his family in 1862 when he commandeered a Confederate ship and piloted it out of Charleston harbor. He later
