{"id":42453,"date":"2026-05-27T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42453"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:12:51","slug":"tollison-harris-pen-article-about-furmans-historic-campuses-throughout-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/tollison-harris-pen-article-about-furmans-historic-campuses-throughout-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tollison, Harris pen article about Furman’s historic campuses throughout SC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emily Anne Harris \u201925. Photo by Nathan Gray, Furman University.<\/p><\/div>\n

In a commentary published in The Post and Courier<\/a>, Courtney Tollison and Emily Anne Harris trace Furman University’s history from its beginnings in Edgefield, South Carolina, in 1826 to its home in the Upstate. Tollison, a 1999 alum and Distinguished University Public Historian and Scholar at Furman, and Harris, a 2025 Furman history alum, connect Furman’s Upcountry identity to its rich and sometimes “messy” legacy in the Lowcountry, Midlands and Pee Dee regions. The article is the second in a series marking Furman’s bicentennial<\/a> year. The first is published here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tollison’s latest book is “Furman University: A Bicentennial History, 1826-2026<\/a>” (Duke University Press). Harris is a graduate student in Clemson\u2019s Historic Preservation Program.<\/p>\n

A subscription may be required to view the article. Furman ID holders can access the content through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n

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In the second in a series of commentaries appearing in The Post and Courier, Courtney Tollison ’99 and Emily Anne Harris ’25 describe Furman’s storied and at times “messy” past in the Lowcountry, Midlands, Pee Dee and Upstate. The series commemorates Furman’s bicentennial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":40837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3404,42,6,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-bicentennial","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-the-post-and-courier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42453","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42459,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42453\/revisions\/42459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}