Shepherd McKinley

• "Phosphates" and "Francis J. Pelzer," forthcoming in the South Carolina Encyclopedia.
• "'Only Good Farmers Buy the Ashley, and They Always Get Rich': Advertising Fertilizer to the Skeptical Southern Consumer, 1870-1890," paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for the History of Technology, Atlanta, October, 2003.
• Review of Heather C. Richardson's The Death of Reconstruction, H-South list (May 2002).

Current Projects:

Shep McKinley is currently working on the topics of fertilizer advertising and convict labor near Charleston, SC, in the 1870s and 1880s.  This work is part of a larger project to extend the research begun in his dissertation ("The Origins of 'King' Phosphate in the New South: Workers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs in South Carolina's Phosphate and Fertilizer Industries, 1865-1884").