Southern Lecture Series
By
Dr. David Aiken
The South Carolina League of the South is privileged to provide selected lectures by permission of Dr. Aiken. We hope these lectures will provide useful information and educational advancement on Southern topics for our guests.
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Dr. Aiken is a founding member of the League of the South, the Abbeville Institute, and the William Gilmore Simms Society. He has earned four degrees from four universities.
He has written, edited or introduced more than fifty articles and books on Faulkner, Flannery O'Conner, William Gilmore Simms and other Southern authors including Fire in the Cradle: Charleston's Literary Heritage, The Golden Christmans, The Cassique of Kiawah, Blood Money: The Civil War and the Federal Reserve, A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, and Invasion (12 audio lectures from Charleston Press).
Dr. Aiken with youngest grandchild and wife Della Jean from Bogalusa, La.
For thirty years he has been teaching English at Southern colleges and universities like the University of Georgia, Charleston Southern University, the College of Charleston and the Citadel. He and his wife have been living in Charleston for eighteen years.
Dr. Aiken and wife with five of their children and families,
and nine of their grandchildren on a South Carolina barrier island
Dr. Aiken received a B.A. in History, Philosophy and English from Baylor University, a M.Div. in Biblical Studies and Christianity and Culture from Duke University, a M.A. in Southern Literature and Classics from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in American Literature and Modern British and American Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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LECTURES:
Simms and The Capture, Sack and Destruction of Columbia, July 2003
Simms and The Capture, Sack and Destruction of Columbia, Part 2
Simms and The Capture, Sack and Destruction of Columbia, Q&A Session
Simms and Abolitionism: Ideology of Invasion, July 2008
New England Literary Imperialism, August 2009
Yankee Monuments to Terrorism, 2005