February 12, 2024
By Marquise Drayton, Community Engagement Assistant This post is re-published from the February 2024 newsletter. Last month’s edition of the newsletter featured a story that discussed enslaved people at Fort Hill Plantation and their lives with the Calhouns. This month, we will discuss the continuation of African American labor through sharecropping, tenant farming, and domestic […]
January 29, 2024
By Dr. Mandi Barnard, Research Historian for the Cemetery Project This post is re-published from the January 2024 newsletter. The Cemetery Project works to recognize and recover the history of the African descended persons who lived on this land and were buried in the African American Burial Ground at Cemetery Hill. Over the past year, […]
November 6, 2023
By Dr. Mandi Barnard, Research Historian for the African American Burial Ground, Andrew P. Calhoun Family Plot, and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project This piece is re-posted from the November 2023 newsletter. The war to end all wars ended in armistice at 11:00 AM on November 11, 1918. In the years since, Armistice Day, or […]
October 4, 2023
By Dr. Rhondda Thomas, Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Call My Name Faculty Director, and Coordinator of Research and Community Engagement for the African American Burial Ground and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project This piece is re-posted from the October 2023 newsletter. Although Clemson University is devoting major attention to documenting the history of Woodland […]
September 5, 2023
By Marquise Drayton, Community Engagement Assistant for the Woodland Cemetery and African American Burial Ground Historic Preservation Project This post is re-published from the September 2023 newsletter Outside of the head coach for Clemson Football, the Clemson University President is one of the most identifiable campus leaders at the land grant institution in Upstate South […]
August 2, 2023
By Deborah Robinson, Genealogist for the Woodland Cemetery and African American Burial Ground Historic Preservation Project This post is re-published from the August 2023 newsletter. The common thread that weaves through all those interred in Woodland Cemetery is each played an integral part in the university’s current existence. Part of the cemetery’s genealogy research agenda […]
June 14, 2023
By Dr. Rhondda Thomas, Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Call My Name Faculty Director, and Coordinator of Research and Community Engagement for the African American Burial Ground and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project This post is re-published from the June 2023 newsletter. Download the full June 2023 newsletter On March 11, 1946, among the five […]
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 […]
October 3, 2022
In this issue we provide information about the research symposium keynote speaker Kamau Sadiki of Diving with a Purpose, update the public on Woodland Cemetery, explain the contributions that Carrel Cowan-Ricks put toward the African American Burial Ground, provide research and community engagement updates, and highlight some upcoming local events. The Woodland Cemetery and African […]
