Clemson University

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/3/2021
  

  Teacher Appreciation Week: In a Tough Year, These Educators Stood Out

  Clemson historian Rhondda Thomas is among the history teachers lauded for excellence – for work to memorialize the Black people who were enslaved by the university or employed under exploitative conditions of convict labor or Jim Crow. 

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• SOURCE: Greenville (SC) News
  6/12/2020
  

  Clemson Removes John C. Calhoun's Name from Honors College, Asks to Rename Tillman Hall

  Calhoun was a slave owner and secessionist whose plantation became Clemson University; Tillman was a governor and white supremacist whose name adorns Clemson's most iconic building.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3-26-15
  

  Emory’s Leslie Harris says we should remember the racist roots of American colleges as we think about what went wrong at OU and other schools

  Demands to rename Tillman Hall at Clemson University, the circulation of a video showing a racist chant at the University of Oklahoma and the discovery of a fraternity pledge book discussing lynching at North Carolina State University demonstrate how persistent racial issues are on college campuses.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2-13-15
  

  Clemson won’t rename building named in honor of a vicious racist

  The building’s named for Ben Tillman, the virulent racist governor of South Carolina who watched while a black state senator was murdered.

• SOURCE: Clemson News
  8-14-13
  

  Clemson's Roger Grant receives book award

  CLEMSON — Clemson University history professor Roger Grant is the bronze winner of ForeWord Review’s Book of the Year Award for history. He won the accolade for his book "Railroads and the American People," a social history of the impact of railroads on American life, published in 2012 by Indiana University Press.“How the railroad has affected people has long intrigued me,” said Grant. “This book has allowed me the opportunity to explore that fascinating relationship.”The ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards is judged by a select group of librarians and booksellers from around the country. There were 1,300 entries from more than 600 publishers and 248 winners were selected from 62 categories. Grant was the bronze winner in the genre of history....