Revealing slavery’s legacy at a public university in the South (Part 2)

24 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1

Continued from Part 1.

As well as trying to convey a sense of these enslaved workers as people, the team of graduate students working on the “Slavery at South Carolina College” website also sought to connect this history to the physical landscape. Read More

Revealing slavery’s legacy at a public university in the South (Part 1)

22 October 2014 – Evan Kutzler, Sarah Conlon, Jamie Diane Wilson, and JoAnn Zeise 1

Written on the landscape of the University of South Carolina is an untold yet well-documented story of slavery. Enslaved people constructed the buildings of the university’s antebellum predecessor, South Carolina College, attended to the wants of white students and faculty, and performed countless tasks essential to running the college. Read More

Lessons in interpreting controversial history at a Southern heritage site

15 March 2013 – Evan Kutzler 1

Part of what drew me to the University of South Carolina’s Ph.D. program in history in 2010 was the opportunity to engage with controversial topics while pursuing an M.A. in public history along the way. The summer after my first year in the program, I found a part-time job with a private non-profit organization looking for someone to produce a new guidebook for an historic property it managed: a farmhouse located on a former plantation in the hills of one of the Border States. Read More

Project Showcase: "All of Us Will Walk Together" at St. Mary's City, Maryland

17 October 2012 – editors 3

Although the central story of Historic St. Mary’s City is about its time as the first capital of Maryland in the 17th century, its space contains many more stories from later eras.  One is the 19th-century story of slavery and freedom at a large slave plantation.   Read More