July 11, 2023
By Marquise Drayton, Community Engagement Assistant for the African American Burial Ground and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project This post is re-published from the July 2023 newsletter. Ironically, both flagship universities in South Carolina and Louisiana stake their claim over who’s “the real Death Valley.”1 According to a 1945 account by Presbyterian College Head Coach Lonnie […]
May 1, 2023
This is a special post re-published from the May 2023 newsletter. Read the full May 2023 newsletter. By Dr. David Markus, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice One of the most significant points the ongoing research and community engagement of the Woodland Cemetery and African American Burial Ground Historic Preservation […]
April 3, 2023
This is a special post re-published from the April 2023 newsletter. Read the full April 2023 newsletter. By Lucas DeBenedetti, Undergraduate Research Assistant This past month Sue Hiott, curator of exhibits for Clemson University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives, recovered new evidence, in the form of four color photographs, which adds more context to the […]
March 6, 2023
This is a special post re-published from the March 2023 newsletter. Read the full March 2023 newsletter. By Alleyia Bailey, Undergraduate Research Assistant Carrel Cowan-Ricks began her journey in Historical Archaeology in 1980 when she enrolled at Wayne State University to study Anthropology. By 1990 Cowan-Ricks entered the Anthropology Ph.D. program at Wayne State with […]
February 13, 2023
This is a special post re-published from the February 2023 newsletter. Read the full February 2023 newsletter. February 2023 Newsletter By Chassidy Olainu-Alade, Director of the Sugar Land 95 Memorialization Project for Fort Bend Independent School District (ISD) February, the month nationally recognized as Black History Month. For most people, Black History Month is a […]
