| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

Stephanie E. Yuhl. A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 285. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.
Twentieth-century Charleston, South Carolina, would not leave history in the past. Culturally, socially, and economically, it—or at least a fraternity of whites—resurrected an expired age, and not solely for nostalgia's sake. They reconciled valued elements of the old with trappings of modernism to shape a new identity for their city.	1
Memory scholars will welcome the arrival of Stephanie E. Yuhl's book. Drawing liberally on local manuscript collections and literary sources, along with an array of conventional materials, she turns to the years between the world wars. Known as the Charleston Renaissance, this period was defined by men and women, mostly but not solely from families with deep local roots, who actively fashioned the city's cultural identity out of the past. Their embrace was discriminating, taking in edifying colonial, revolutionary, and antebellum history while elbowing out the rubble of the Civil War and its Lost Cause aftermath. As it confirmed traditional elite values and racial beliefs, their version of history also fostered interregional tourism. Art, architectural preservation, literature, heritage tourism, and revived Negro spirituals were their cultural provinces and historical mnemonics.	. . .

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