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Remembering the Days -- Monuments and memorials: A conversation with Lydia Brandt

April 29, 2025, Chris Horn and Evan Faulkenbury

As an architectural historian, Lydia Brandt is trained to read the world around her, which at USC means understanding the context of campus buildings — why they were built in a certain style, why they were named for particular individuals and how the institution defines its identity through its physical space. Our conversation with Brandt touches on those ideas and the university's recent efforts to tell a larger story of its past through figurative monuments. 

Topics: History

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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.

Topics: History

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Remembering the Days -- Reconstruction at USC: A conversation wtih Christian 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.

Topics: History

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