Episodes
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses a new guidebook to the SC State House with Dr. Lydia Mattice Brandt. Lydia is an architectural historian, historic preservationist, and associate professor of art history at the University of South Carolina here in Columbia. She is the author of First in the Homes of His Countrymen: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination and many articles published in Winterthur Portfolio, Antiques & Fine Art, and the Public Historian, and her recent publication is The South Carolina State House Grounds: A Guidebook published by the University of South Carolina Press.
Transcript of The South Carolina State House Grounds with Dr. Lydia Mattice Brandt - Episode 139
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Monday Apr 05, 2021
Live at Jackson Station with Dan Harrison - Episode 138
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses a new book from the University of South Carolina Press with Dr. Daniel Harrison. He is the author of Live at Jackson Station, a book about a rhythm and blues club in rural Hodges, South Carolina, in the 1980s that brought a very metropolitan vibe to the sleepy town – but! It has a true-crime angle. Dr. Harrison is a professor of sociology at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, and also the author of Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter: The Dark Side of Political Protest.
Transcript of Live at Jackson Station with Dan Harrison - Episode 138
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Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Call My Name, Clemson with Dr. Rhondda Thomas - Episode 133
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses the African American history of Clemson University with Dr. Rhondda Robinson Thomas. Dr. Thomas is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, specializing in early African-American literature, culture, and history. She is the author of Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774-1903 and co-editor of The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought, A Reader. Her most recent publication, by the University of Iowa Press, is Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community.
Transcript of Call My Name, Clemson with Dr. Rhondda Thomas - Episode 133
Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
From Our Collection - Children's Books - Episode 132
Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Dr. Curtis Rogers learns about some of the children's books found in the State Library's collection with staff members Sarah Pettus, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, and Kerry Jeyschune, Digital Projects Coordinator.
Transcript of From Our Collection - Children's Books - Episode 132.
- How High The Moon by Karyn Parsons
- Sisters Against Slavery: A Story about Sarah and Angelina Grimke by Stephanie McPherson with illustrations by Karen Ritz
- The Lizard Man of Crabtree County by Lucy Nolan, illustrated by Jill Kastner
- Beauty, Her Basket by Sandra Belton, illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera
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- Lucy Nolan
- Sandra Belton
- Sweet Blackberry - Sweet Blackberry’s mission is to bring little known stories of African American achievement to children everywhere.
- National Historical Park in New York State – Women’s Rights Exhibit featuring the Grimke sisters
- South Carolina’s lizard man
- South Carolina sweetgrass baskets
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina - Dr. Bernie Powers - Episode 130
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses the newly published University of South Carolina Press book, 101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina with the editor, Dr. Bernie Powers. Dr. Powers is a professor emeritus of history at the College of Charleston and was also the founding director of the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, South Carolina. He is also the author of Black Charlestonians: A Social History 1822–1885 and coauthor of We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel. Dr. Powers is a founding board member and interim chief executive officer of the International African American Museum in Charleston.
Transcript of 101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina - Dr. Bernie Powers - Episode 130