Exploring African Heritage with Discus - SC's Virtual Library

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Subscribe to our YouTube channel to find great online training! In this video you can learn how to discover African heritage, culture, and places using resources accessed through Discus - South Carolina's Virtual Library. Tour features in CultureGrams and search Gale in Context: Biography to locate information. Learn how to navigate CultureGrams to explore African countries and culture, people, recipes, maps, videos, and more. Also learn how to browse people and search persons by ethnicity, nationality, and occupation. 

Upcoming Event

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Speaker at the Center: Silversmith Kaminer Haislip, "Charleston Silver, Past to Present"

August 7, 2025, 6:00 PM

Join us at the next installment of the Speaker at the Center series with Charleston silversmith Kaminer Haislip. Haislip's rice spoon was recently added to the Charleston Museum's collection and she has received a grant from SC Humanities to study silver techniques abroad. Kaminer will present a lecture titled Charleston Silver, Past to Present on the history of colonial Charleston silversmithing and how it relates to her contemporary silver designs.