Historian Kathryn Roe Coker, PhD will discuss her most recent book, Charleston Loyalists: Treason and Survival in the American Revolution. Dr. Coker will talk about the Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War including the women of Loyalist Charleston and their petitions for property, protection, and surival. The book features more than eighty rare and striking historic images. and was co-authored with Jason Wetsel.

Dr. Coker earned her doctorate in history from the University of South Carolina and has worked as an appraisal archivist for the South Carolina Dept. of Archives and History, and as a historian for the U.S. Army. She has published numerous articles, books, and pamphlets including A History of Fort Gordon, A Concise History of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, World War II Prisoners of War in Georgia: Camp Gordon’s POWs, Mobilization of the U.S. Army Reserve for the Korean War, U.S. Army Reserve Recipients of the Medal of Honor and The Indispensable Force: The U.S. Army Reserve (1990–2010). She retired in 2015 from Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

While employed by Richmond Public Library during the Pandemic, Dr. Coker wrote numerous articles about local historoy. She has continuked to make American history available to the publilc by researching and writing numerous books with her co-author Jason Wetsel such as Virginia POW Camps in World War II. Charleston Loyalists: Treason and Survival in the American Revolution. is their latest book.