Special Events
Each semester, the Department of History hosts lectures, panels, and other special events highlighting current historical research.
Coming up
Check out what's happening this month:
Annual Black History Month Lecture
The single most important department event in the department’s year is our sponsorship of this annual lecture series. Its purpose is to bring leading historians and cutting-edge scholarship in the field of Black History to the College of Charleston and the community at large. Speakers in recent years have included Dr. Alaina Roberts of the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Tamika Nunley of Cornell, Dr. Destin Jenkins of Stanford, Dr. Douglas Flowe from Washington University in St. Louis, and the department’s own Dr. Shannon Eaves.
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. 
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.
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.Previous Department Events
Click below to learn about interesting programs we offered prior to our Annual Black History Month Lecture Series.
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 Charleston and the Lowcountry region.