Charleston History in Color: Photographs from the Civil War to Modern Days

by Mark R. Jones

Charleston Like It's Never Been Seen Hand-colored, vivid details bring these historic photographs to life like never before. Witness the beginnings of the sweetgrass basket tradition. See the bleak devastation on Meeting Street after the Civil War. Note intense contrast in blues and grays of prisoners captured at the Battle of Bull Run. Explore the Battery as it looked in the 1800s. And dazzle in the bright fashions of flappers at the dawn of "the Charleston" dance craze. Author Mark Jones and artist Lewis Hayes bring a new vision to Holy City history.

158 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 14, 2023

About the author

Mark R. Jones is an eighth generation native of the South Carolina lowcountry. He is an author, historian, licensed guide and tour operator in Charleston, S.C. He has conducted more than 40,000 tours.

He is the author of seven other books. His first book kicked off the wildly popular Wicked series for The History Press. Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City (2005), was followed by Wicked Charleston, Vol. II: Prostitutes, Politics & Prohibition (2006).

In 2007, Jones published two true crime anthologies, Palmetto Predators: Monsters Among Us and South Carolina Killers: Crimes of Passion. Jones, and one of the Predator stories, was featured in the Investigation Discovery program “A Crime To Remember” in 2016.

In 2013, Jones published Doin’ the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy and Kingdom By The Sea: Edgar Allan Poe’s Charleston Tales. In 2015, Jones published Charleston Firsts. and the Charleston Almanac.

Jones is also an active speaker, creating historical presentations for a wide variety of organizations - schools, libraries, corporate and civic organizations.