History Center Fall 2025
Monday, August 25, 3:30-5:00 pm, Gambrell 245b
Dr. Alexandra Herrera, Assistant Professor (USC) and Dr. S. Wright Kennedy, Assistant Professor (USC), will conduct a Graduate student workshop on “Archival Research: Experiences, Strategies, Best Practices.”
Wednesday, September 17, 4:00 pm, Gambrell 245b
PhD student, Gabrielle McCoy, will discuss a chapter of her dissertation, “Friendship & Gossip in Women’s Equestrian Circles,” which analyzes how women used recreational horseback riding to construct female-dominated spaces that nurtured female friendships, thwarted male supervision, and allowed women to compare their equestrian skills.
Tuesday, September 23, 4:30-6:00 pm, Gambrell 429
Book talk with Cecilia Marquez, (Duke University), on her book, Making the Latino South. Cosponsored with: Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx Studies Program, Institute for Southern Studies.
Monday - Tuesday, October 6-7
On the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act: History, Legacy, Current Struggles: a series of events with long-time civil rights lawyers Armand Derfner, Barbara Phillips. Cosponsored with Center for Civil Rights History and Research
Monday, October 6, Hollings Room, 5:00-7:00 pm: Panel discussion with Armand Derfner and Barbara Phillips on the history of the 1965 Voting Rights, and its implementation from 1965 through the 1982 renewal, with some discussion of the rollbacks that began in the 1990s. Location TBD
Tuesday, October 7, Gambrell 428: a lunchtime roundtable discussion, following up on the presentations the previous evening, and focusing on the courts and the state of voting rights today.
Wednesday, October 15
Dr. Manisha Sinha (University of Connecticut) will deliver the Richard Greener lecture and participate in a roundtable discussion of her recently published book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920. Cosponsored with the College of Education
9-10:30 am, Gambrell 245b: Discussion with Manisha Sinha on her scholarship, including her recent book.
5:00-7:00 pm, Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library: Manisha Sinha, Lecture on, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, with reception and book signing to follow.
Tuesday, October 28, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm, Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library
Andrew Johnson (South Carolina Department of Archives and History) will discuss his book Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of South Carolina, reception and book signing.
Tuesday, November 4, 5:30 pm – 7:00pm, Robert Mills Carriage House, Historic Columbia
Faculty spotlight lecture/discussion with Dr. Lauren Sklaroff and Dr. Tom Lekan, “New Methods/Unexpected Connections: Anti-Semitism and Judeophobia across the US, Germany, & East Africa.”
Wednesday, November 12, 4:00 pm, Gambrell 245b
Work in Progress discussion with PhD student, Sam Badger, who will discuss the draft of his article for the Journal of Southern History, “Hillbilly Modernity: Political Economy and Culture in 1946 Alabama."