Episodes
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
In the big leagues: a century of athletic conference affiliations
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
In the past 100 years, USC has been a member of four athletics conferences. Here's a quick primer on the whens and whys of each affiliation and a look back at the university's 21-year stretch as a football independent.
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Mazel tov! The history of Jewish presence at USC
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
The state of South Carolina has a surprisingly rich history of Jewish presence dating back more than three centuries. It's not surprising, then, that the University of South Carolina would have its own history of Jewish life on campus.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Message in a bottle (buried on the Horseshoe)
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
USC students in 1977 buried an eclectic assortment of items in a time capsule that was unearthed in 2001 for the university's bicentennial celebration. That same year, another more elaborate time capsule was buried on the Horseshoe with a scheduled opening of 2051. Here's a sneak preview of what's inside.
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
We hail thee, Carolina!
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
USC alumni and students have been singing the university alma mater for more than 110 years. But what, exactly, is an alma mater and how did USC end up with one?
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Waltzes, the One-step and shag: dancing across the decades at USC
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
For two centuries, social dances have been knitted into the fabric of the campus social scene at Carolina. Waltzes, the One-step, shag and hip-hop—the style of dance changes but the beat goes on.
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Crowing for Carolina: The history of The Gamecock newspaper
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
When The Gamecock student newspaper began publishing in 1908, there were only 300 students on campus to read it. Since then, the award-winning paper has published myriad stories about campus life and helped launch the careers of innumerable writers and journalists.
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
The Duel of 1833
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton engaged in an infamous duel in 1804, and a number of South Carolina College students nearly got tangled up in duels in the years before the Civil War. History records only one duel involving South Carolina College students that ended in fatality — and this is the strange story of that tragedy.
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Palmetto Ivy: How the Honors College came to be
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
USC's South Carolina Honors College was born in the 1970s when several other of the nation's first honors colleges came into being. But rather than becoming an also-ran, USC's Honors College emerged as one of the nation's best by offering hundreds of unique honors courses across every academic discipline at the university.
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
First things first, USC’s first national championship
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Curtis Frye, head coach of field and track head at USC, knows a thing or two about coming in first place and being the first to do something. He's done all of those in his time at Carolina, including bringing home the university's first-ever national championship trophy. Perhaps most importantly, Coach Frye understands the importance of putting first things first.
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Gran Tourino: the history of USC’s Visitor Center
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Every year, tens of thousands of prospective students and their families visit the University of South Carolina for a campus tour. Here's the story of how the university's Visitor Center came to be, as well as a peek behind the curtains at some unscripted moments in the lives of campus tour guides.