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Our 5th annual Black History Month Lecture took place on February 19, 2025. It was called, "Sexual Violence and American Slavery in Chalreston," and was presented by our own Dr. Shannon Eaves. This lecture was based on her recent book, Sexual Violence and American Slavery in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø: A Local Examination of the South’s Rape Culture. 

Sponsored by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Department of History, African American Studies Program, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World, Center for Public Choice and Market Process, Center for the Study of Slavery in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Civility Initiative, Department of Political Science, Office of Institutional Diversity, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

Our 4th annual Black History Month Lecture took place on February 29, 2024. It was called, "Black and Indigenous Solidarities & Antagonisms," and was presented by Dr. Alaina Roberts, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.

The lecture was co-sponsored by the African American Studies Program, the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World, the Center for Public Choice and Market Progress, the Center for the Study of Slavery in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, the Department of Political Science, The department of Religious Studies, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program.

Our 3rd Annual Black History Month Lecture, "Black Women's History as American History and the Everyday Struggles over Liberty and Justice," was presented by Dr. Tamika Nunley, Associate Professor of History at Cornell University, and was held on February 15, 2023.

The lecture was co-sponsored by the African American Studies Program, the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World, the Center for Public Choice and Market Progress, the Center for the Study of Slavery in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, the Department of Political Science, the Office of Institutional Diversity, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program.

"The Bonds of Racial Inequality in Postwar America," featured Dr. Destin Jenkins, Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University, and was held on February 25, 2022.

This lecture was co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Development.

Our inaugural Black History Month lecture took place on February 16, 2021. It was called, “Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York,” and featured Dr. Douglas Flowe, Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.

April 17, 2025

Authoritarianism and the University

The History Club and members of the Department of History had an interesting discussion on the history of state interventions against the university in the contexts of Latin America, Nazi Germany, China, and the United States. This panel discussion featured Dr. Bodek, Dr. Covert, Dr. Gordanier, Dr. Payne, and Dr. Poole. 

Sponsored by: History Club, Amnesty International, T-Time, Students for a Democratic Society, and Young Democratic Socialists of America

April 21, 2025

The Department of History Awards

We celebrated exceptional History students at our annual Awards Ceremony & Paper Symposium. Check out our blog for details.

This virtual roundtable discussion took place on November 19, 2020. Organized by Dr. Rachel Donaldson and Dr. Elisa J. Jones, the roundtable was designed to meet the needs of local public history practitioners and graduate students interested in diversity, equity, and inclusion as a practice. Bringing together experts in local public history, oral history, archives, museums, and digital history, this conversation addresses the problem of developing antiracist public history digital initiatives and provides a map of best practices for antiracist education and long-term planning in local public history. While the discussion is wide-ranging, the examples are based in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the Lowcountry region.

Associate Professor Dr. Shannon Eaves planned and facilitated this moderated discussion with Dr. Millicent Brown, whose 1963 court case desegregated ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø public schools, and Mrs. Caroll Turpin, who was the first black student to integrate Barnwell High School. Together, these women shed light on the urban and rural experience of Jim Crow and the psychological impact of systemic racism.