Johnstone was a massive structure enveloping almost all of Clemson’s core campus; within it there was the University Post Office, Harcombe Dining Hall, the Student Union, and the Quadrangle–set-up for cadet formations. The structure itself was built…

As the granddaughter of Thomas and Frances “Franny” Fruster, and grandmother of the first Fruster family Clemson graduate (Eric Young) Juanita G. Webb’s domestic service at Clemson brings us insight into the experiences of Black Women in the area at…

During the events of 1969’s SLBI walk-out, The Tiger, Clemson’s student-run newspaper since 1907 covered that and many connected events on and around campus. While The Tiger was criticized by local news sources as being liberally biased and…

Rock-and-Roll was the international language of youth rebellion during the 1960s and 1970s. It united the youth of the counterculture like politics could not. Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum hosted a number of rock-and-roll bands, including the Allman…

The ROTC, or reserve officer training corps, trains students to be officers in the United States military. The students go to school like a normal college student, but they have extra responsibilities. Certain days of the week the cadets must wear…

Susan Clemson Richardson was born into slavery at Fort Hill around 1828. Both her mother, Daphne, and her father, Bill Lawrence, were enslaved by the Calhouns. Her mother worked in the Fort Hill Plantation House as a wet nurse to her enslaver’s first…