Between The Waters

Bert Mercer

Dr. Albert Baruch Mercer, M.D., is a trustee of the Belle W. Baruch Foundation and great-grandson of Bernard Baruch’s older brother, Hartwig Baruch. He is a cardiologist living in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of a three-volume biography of Eleanor Roosevelt: "Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884–1933," "Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933–1938," and "Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962." She was interviewed for and featured in Ken Burns' 2014 PBS TV documentary, "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History."

Stan Altman

Stan Altman is campus director of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance at Baruch College, and leads the partnership between Baruch College and the Rubin Museum of Art. He served as the interim-President of Baruch College in 2009-10 and as Dean of Baruch’s School of Public Affairs from 1999-2005. He has also served as Deputy to the President, SUNY Stony Brook, and Associate Provost for Health Policy, State University of New York.

Daniel Littlefield

Daniel Littlefield is Carolina Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He has a special interest in American slavery and race relations, focusing on the American Colonial period, and is the author of "Revolutionary Citizens: African Americans, 1776-1804," and "Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina."

Eric Foner

Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University specializing in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. His seminal study of Reconstruction, "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877," was the winner, among other awards, of the Bancroft Prize, Parkman Prize, and Los Angeles Times Book Award. His book, "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011.

Harlan Greene

Harlan Greene is an author, public historian, and head of Special Collections at the College of Charleston's Addlestone Library. He won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for his 1991 novel, "What the Dead Remember," and was nominated for the same award for his 2005 novel, "The German Officer's Boy."

Karen Smith

Karen Smith is a Southeastern archaeologist with a background in Woodland period and plantation-era research and archaeological curation at the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology. She is the director of the Applied Research Division of SCIAA, and worked in Monticello's Department of Archaeology, Charlottesville, Virginia for nine years before joining the Institute.

Lee Brockington

Lee Brockington is the Senior Interpreter for the Belle W. Baruch Foundation at Hobcaw Barony and an author and historian. Her published books include "Pawleys Island: A Century of History and Photographs," and "Plantation Between the Waters: A Brief History of Hobcaw Barony." This interview was conducted in 2010 for the SCETV documentary, "The Baruchs of Hobcaw."

Lee Brockington 2

Lee Brockington is the Senior Interpreter for the Belle W. Baruch Foundation at Hobcaw Barony and an author and historian. Her published books include "Pawleys Island: A Century of History and Photographs," and "Plantation Between the Waters: A Brief History of Hobcaw Barony." This interview was conducted in 2015 for Between the Waters.

Leland Ferguson

Leland Ferguson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of "Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Colonial African America, 1650–1800," and a recipient of the Southern Anthropological Society’s James Mooney Award.

Mary E. Miller

Mary E. Miller is the author Belle Baruch's biography, "Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch." After a twenty-five-year career in journalism, Miller left the world of magazine and newspaper writing to enter Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C., where she earned an M.A. in pastoral studies. She is now a spiritual director and retreat leader living in Surfside Beach, South Carolina.

Minnie Kennedy

Minnie Kennedy, born in 1916 in one of the former slave villages on Hobcaw Barony, was the first person in her family to graduate from college. After a long, distinguished career as an educator, she retired to Georgetown and volunteered at Hobcaw as a docent and tour guide. Minnie's stories can be found all across the website, and have much to tell about Hobcaw Barony's long and diverse history. Ms. Kennedy died on January 14, 2014, at the age of 97. this interview was conducted in 2010 for the SCETV documentary, "The Baruchs of Hobcaw."

Minnie Kennedy Tour of Friendfield Village

Minnie Kennedy, born in 1916 in one of the former slave villages on Hobcaw Barony, was the first person in her family to graduate from college. After a long, distinguished career as an educator, she retired to Georgetown and volunteered at Hobcaw as a docent and tour guide. Minnie's stories can be found all across the website, and have much to tell about Hobcaw Barony's long and diverse history. Ms. Kennedy died on January 14, 2014, at the age of 97. In this 2010 interview she takes the SCETV crew on a tour of her childhood home, Friendfield Village on Hobcaw Barony.

Valinda Littlefield

Dr. Valinda Littlefield is the Director of African-American Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. She is a scholar of the history of women, African Americans and education, with an emphasis on Southern African-American women and African-American history from 1877 to the present. This interview was conducted in 2010 for the SCETV documentary, "The Baruchs of Hobcaw."

Valinda Littlefield 2

Dr. Valinda Littlefield is the Director of African-American Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. She is a scholar of the history of women, African Americans and education, with an emphasis on Southern African-American women and African-American history from 1877 to the present. This interview was conducted in 2015 for Between the Waters.

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