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Remembering the Days --The Colorful History of Gamecock Sports: A conversation with Alan Piercy

April 21, 2025, Chris Horn and Evan Faulkenbury

You can stay up to date on current Gamecock sports through multiple news outlets and platforms, but to delve into the history of Gamecock sports, Alan Piercy is your guy. He writes a blog about Gamecock sports history and has written a book on USC sports during the independent era of 1971-91. He's also contemplating another book on the men's basketball program in the early Frank McGuire era and construction of the Carolina Coliseum in 1968.

Remembering the Days -- Reconstruction at USC: A conversation wtih Chritstian Anderson

March 07, 2025, Chris Horn and Evan Faulkenbury

The story of the Reconstruction era at the University of South Carolina is remarkable. A previously all-white institution admitted Black men, established a Normal School to train Black women to be school teachers and welcomed Black faculty and trustees. Museum of Education director Christian Anderson talks about his ongoing research on that chapter of USC's past.

Remembering the Days -- South Carolina's historian, Walter Edgar

February 21, 2025, Chris Horn and Evan Faulkenbury

For more than 40 years, Walter Edgar taught the history of South Carolina to USC students and was a prolific scholar, writing several history books about the Palmetto State. Now retired but still hosting a podcast about state history, Edgar reminisces about his long career at the university.

Topics: History

Remembering the Days -- Stories of the enslaved: Jill Found

February 21, 2025, Chris Horn and Evan Faulkenbury

While a doctoral student in USC's history department, Jill Found searched the university's archives to find clues about enslaved people who worked on the campus of South Carolina College. Those efforts help tell the story of those who for decades were nameless and unrecognized.

Topics: History