Carl Borick

Carl Borick is the Director of The Charleston Museum. Carl is a CPA, with a Bachelor’s in Accounting from the University of Delaware (1988) and a Master’s in History from the University of Alabama (1993). He has been with the Museum since 1996 and became Director in 2013. Carl is the author of two books on the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, both published by the University of South Carolina Press, A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780 and Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782. A Gallant Defense won the 2003 George C. Rogers, Jr. Award from the South Carolina Historical Society for the year’s best book in South Carolina history. He is also the primary author of The Charleston Museum: America’s First Museum, published in 2022 by USC Press, in honor of the Museum’s 250th anniversary in 2023. His upcoming book, Backcountry Resistance: South Carolina's Militia and the Fight for American Independence, focusing on the recruitment, motivation and supply of backcountry South Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War, will be released by USC Press in March 2026.