Monday, August 25, 2025
3:30–5:00 p.m. | Gambrell 245B

Graduate student workshop: Archival Research: Experiences, Strategies, Best Practices, led by Dr. Alexandra Herrera and Dr. S. Wright Kennedy, Assistant Professors at USC.

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
4:00 p.m. | Gambrell 245B

Ph.D. student Gabrielle McCoy will discuss a chapter of her dissertation, Friendship & Gossip in Women’s Equestrian Circles, which explores how women used recreational horseback riding to create female-centered spaces for friendship, skill-building and independence from male supervision.

Tuesday, September 23, 2025
4:30–6:00 p.m. | Gambrell 429

Book talk with Cecilia Marquez of Duke University on Making the Latino South. Cosponsored with the Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx Studies Program and the Institute for Southern Studies.

Monday–Tuesday, October 6–7, 2025

On the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act: History, Legacy, Current Struggles, a series of events with longtime civil rights lawyers Armand Derfner and Barbara Phillips. Cosponsored with the Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

• Monday, October 6
  5:00–7:00 p.m. | Hollings Room
  Panel discussion on the history of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, its implementation through the 1982 renewal and later rollbacks.
• Tuesday, October 7
  Gambrell 428
  Lunchtime roundtable discussion focused on the courts and the state of voting rights today.

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Dr. Manisha Sinha of the University of Connecticut will deliver the Richard Greener Lecture and participate in a roundtable discussion of her book The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920. Cosponsored with the College of Education.

• 9:00–10:30 a.m. | Gambrell 245B
  Discussion of her scholarship, including her recent book.
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. | Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library
  Lecture followed by a reception and book signing.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
5:30–7:00 p.m. | Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library

Andrew Johnson of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History will discuss his book Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of South Carolina. Reception and book signing to follow.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025
5:30–7:00 p.m. | Robert Mills Carriage House, Historic Columbia

Faculty spotlight lecture and discussion with Dr. Lauren Sklaroff and Dr. Tom Lekan: New Methods/Unexpected Connections: Anti-Semitism and Judeophobia across the U.S., Germany and East Africa.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025
4:00 p.m. | Gambrell 245B

Work in Progress with Ph.D. student Sam Badger, discussing his draft article for the Journal of Southern History, Hillbilly Modernity: Political Economy and Culture in 1946 Alabama.

Monday, November 17, 2025
3:30 p.m. | Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library

Jennifer Whitmer Taylor of Duquesne University will discuss her book Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the Future of the House Museum. Reception and book signing to follow.

Friday, January 31, 2025
1:10–2:00 p.m. | School of Music Recital Hall, Room 206

Naomi Andre of UNC-Chapel Hill presents Blackness in Opera as part of the Luise E. Peake Music and Culture Colloquium. Cosponsored with the School of Music.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025
5:00–6:30 p.m. | Hollings Library Program Room

Teaching the History of the Civil Rights Movement: Reflections on Two Decades of NEH Institutes at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, featuring Waldo Martin and Patricia Sullivan, moderated by Bobby Donaldson. Cosponsored with the Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Monday, February 17, 2025
3:45–5:15 p.m. | Gambrell 245B

Work in progress with Sarah Waheed of USC on Collaborators and Conspirators in the 16th Century Court of a Muslim Warrior Queen: Gender, Violence, and Power in Early Modern South Asia, a chapter from her manuscript In Search of Chand Bibi: Warrior Queen of India.

Thursday, February 27, 2025
5:30–7:00 p.m. | Kendall Room, Caroliniana Library

Seth Rockman of Brown University will discuss his book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. A reception and book signing will follow. Cosponsored with the Institute for Southern Studies.

Friday, February 28, 2025
12:00–1:15 p.m. | Gambrell 245B

Roundtable discussion with Seth Rockman about Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery.

Monday, March 24, 2025
4:00–5:30 p.m. | Gambrell 217

Dr. Larissa Smith, Provost and Professor of History at Longwood University, will speak on Building a Community Anchor in a National Civil Rights Landmark: The Story of the Moton Museum.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
12:00–1:15 p.m. | Gambrell 429

Lunch and roundtable discussion with Robert A. Cross, author of The Minutemen and Their World, on Who’s Your Audience? Advanced Nonfiction Writing for the Historian. Cosponsored with the Humanities Collaborative.

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
5:30–8:00 p.m. | Robert Mills House & Gardens

Faculty Spotlight and Reception with Dr. E. Gabrielle Kuenzli, Associate Professor of History at USC, presenting In the Winner's Circle: Latinos, Thoroughbred Horse Racing, and the Broader Relevance of the Kentucky Derby.

Monday, April 14, 2025
5:30–7:00 p.m. | Kendall Room, Caroliniana Library

Peter F. Lau will discuss his book Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality since 1865. Cosponsored with the Center for Civil Rights History and Research and the Institute for Southern Studies.

Friday, April 25, 2025
Time and place TBD

Ryan Darr will discuss his book The Best Effect: Theology and the Origins of Consequentialism. Cosponsored with the Department of Philosophy.

Thursday, September 5, 2024
12:00–1:00 p.m. | Gambrell 245B

Work in Progress with Andrew Kettler of USC: Remembrance of the Bicameral Mind: Sensory Worlds at the Interface, exploring how history can help us think critically about the rise of artificial intelligence.

Friday, September 13, 2024
4:00 p.m. | Gambrell 217

Dr. Natalya Tshuikina, an Erasmus fellow and professor at Tallinn University, presents Russians in Estonia: International Tensions and Linguistic Policy.

Monday, September 23, 2024
5:00 p.m. | Kendall Room, Caroliniana

Caroline Grego of Queens University Charlotte discusses Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry. Book talk and signing.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
12:00–1:30 p.m. | Gambrell 245B

Roundtable discussion on Southern environmental history and the environmental history of slavery with Caroline Grego, Wright Kennedy and D. Andrew Johnson, moderated by Tom Lekan. Lunch provided.

Monday, October 28, 2024
1:00–2:15 p.m. | Gambrell 245B

Dana Logan of UNC Greensboro visits campus for a panel discussion on methodologies in the study of religion from history and religious studies.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
5:45–7:00 p.m. | Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library

Dana Logan presents Baptist Discipline: Policing the Antebellum Southeast.

Thursday, November 14, 2024
12:00–1:15 p.m. | Gambrell 217

Work in Progress with Na Sil Hao of USC: Threefold Benefits: Mobilizing Dairy Farmers and Building Bovine Alliances in Cold War South Korea.

Friday, November 15, 2024
3:00–4:15 p.m. | Gambrell 245B

Prof. John D. Miller of Longwood College discusses his recently published book Honorable and Brilliant Labors: Orations of William Gilmore Sims.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
5:00–6:30 p.m. | Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library

Prof. Nicole Eustace of NYU presents A Forgotten Founding Document from 1722: The Great Treaty of Albany and Indigenous Theories of Justice, based on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Covered with Night: The Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in America.