Research Voices
The Failed Winnsboro Experiment
The current timelines of the university typically start with the founding date (1826) and then the story that the institution moved quite a bit from its founding until it found a home in Greenville (in 1852) and eventually northern Greenville county (1958).
Complicity, then Violence: The Mauldin Journal
Perhaps the best record of the lead up to Civil War is housed in Furman's Special Collections, the Journal of Belton Oscar Mauldin for 1860.
Contrasting Two Furmans
Dr. Steve O'Neill has been hard at work over the past months to uncover the past, and one of the major histories he'll be able to define in higher contrast is the role of Richard and, his son, James C. Furman.
Slave Labor Discoveries at Furman’s Downtown Campus
As a student researcher in the Task Force, I was assigned the responsibility of investigating the construction of Furman’s early campuses.
The Bricks Under Your Feet
The Old College from the Furman campus, the Shack from the Greenville Women's College.
Celebrating Murphy
Telling discomforting histories must also be tied with the stories of the persecuted who achieved measures of success within an unjust system.
More discoveries on downtown campus and Greenville District
Four more potential instances of slave labor in the construction of Furman’s downtown campus.
Seeking the lives of my ancestors across the Atlantic
Research on the construction of the early campuses of Furman University.