August 21, 2025, Chris Horn and Evan Faulkenbury
He was a star quarterback for the Gamecocks more than 50 years ago, and for most of the years since then Tommy Suggs has been the color commentator for radio coverage of USC football games. He recently sat down with Remembering the Days co-hosts Evan Faulkenbury and Chris Horn to look back on his career and look ahead to the fall 2025 football season.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.