A collection of important, but little-known, scholarship examining the Civil War and Reconstruction

Fritz Hamer is the curator of history and archivist at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum and previously held posts at the South Carolina State Museum and the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina. He has published articles on the social and racial impact of World War II in Charleston and on the South Carolina home front in World War I. Hamer served as president of the South Carolina Historical Association from 2001 to 2002 and 2011 to 2012.