{"id":1860,"date":"2013-12-19T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/12\/19\/historians-to-discuss-forgotten-moments-in-upstates-past\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:28:32","slug":"historians-to-discuss-forgotten-moments-in-upstates-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/historians-to-discuss-forgotten-moments-in-upstates-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Historians to discuss forgotten moments in Upcountry&#8217;s past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Recovering3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9469 lazyload\" alt=\"Recovering3\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Recovering3-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 199px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 199\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight historians from the region will speak about forgotten moments in 19th century Upcountry history Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Upcountry History Museum-Furman University.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is part of the museum\u2019s History After Dark Program and is open to the public. The event is free for Upcountry History Museum-Furman University members, $5 for non-members, and $2.50 for students.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation is based on a newly released book written by the eight historians, <em>Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountry South Carolina History<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During the program, the authors reveal new insights about the Upcountry and its role in the nation, and engage in a discussion about how exploring local history can lead to deeper understandings of the American past.<\/p>\n<p>The contributors explore topics such as the history of education in the region, post-Civil War occupation by Union troops, Upcountry tourism, Freedman\u2019s Bureau\u2019s efforts to educate African Americans, and the complex dynamics of lynch mobs in the late 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>The authors include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Katherine D. Cann, Spartanburg Methodist College<\/li>\n<li>Timothy P. Grady, University of South Carolina-Upstate<\/li>\n<li>Nancy Snell Griffith, Presbyterian College<\/li>\n<li>Carol Loar, University of South Carolina-Upstate<\/li>\n<li>Robert B. McCormick, University of South Carolina-Upstate<\/li>\n<li>Andrew H. Myers, University of South Carolina-Upstate<\/li>\n<li>Diane C. Vecchio, Furman University<\/li>\n<li>Melissa Walker, Converse College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the program, contact Timothy W. Bishop, Director of Museum Development, Upcountry History Museum-Furman University, 864-467-3100, or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upcountryhistory.org\/\">http:\/\/www.upcountryhistory.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight historians from the region will speak about forgotten moments in 19<sup>th<\/sup> century Upcountry history Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Upcountry History Museum-Furman University.\u00a0The talk is part of the museum\u2019s History After Dark Program and is open to the public. The event is free for Upcountry History Museum-Furman University members, $5 for non-members, and $2.50 for students.\u00a0The conversation is based on a newly released book written by the eight historians, <i>Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountry South Carolina History.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}