User:Bruce E Baker

I am a historian raised in Easley, South Carolina; educated at Clemson University and the University of North Carolina; and now working at Newcastle University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. I am interested in the history of the U.S. South, especially South Carolina and topics such as lynching, labor unions, and folklore. More recently, I have gotten interested in business history (especially the cotton trade at the beginning of the twentieth century) and public health history.

I have not done much on here yet, except write articles on two South Carolina governors, Coleman Livingston Blease and Richard Irvine Manning III, and a page on one of my favorite labor history books, Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. I will probably get around to working on some of the South Carolina topics relating to Reconstruction soon.

For more about me, see my webpage.