Special Events

April 17, 2025

Authoritarianism and the University

Location & Time: Maybank 302 from 3:00-4:00

Please join the History Club and members of the Department of History for a 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 features 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

Free and open to the public.

April 21, 2025

The Department of History Awards

Location & Time: Addlestone Library, Room 227 at 3:30 p.m.

Join us as we celebrate exceptional History students at our annual Awards Ceremony & Paper Symposium. Refreshments will be served. Please be sure to bring your Cougar ID to gain access to the Library.

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. Video forthcoming.

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 Charleston, 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 Charleston, 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.

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.

Associate Professor Dr. Shannon Eaves planned and facilitated this moderated discussion with Dr. Millicent Brown, whose 1963 court case desegregated Charleston 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.