{"id":4285,"date":"2026-03-17T21:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/modjeskaschool\/?page_id=4285"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:13:12","slug":"deep-dives-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/modjeskaschool\/deep-dives-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Dives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n2026 CALENDAR<\/span><\/h1>\n

During its spring session, the Modjeska Simkins School offers public programs with leading writers, teachers, and historians. Some of the talks are held at GROW, our HQ at 1340 Elmwood Ave. in Columbia, SC. Others are held on Zoom only.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022<\/span> See past Deep Dive recordings on our YouTube playlist<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022<\/span> Check back here for updates, as new programs are added throughout the semester.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022<\/span> Sign up for our e-list<\/a> to receive notifications. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022<\/span> Find us on Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sunday, March 8, 4pm<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Deep Dive 1: First Nations.<\/strong> On Zoom and in-person at GROW. Guest presenters: Chris Judge<\/strong>, Assistant Director at University of South Carolina Lancaster; Beckee Garris<\/strong>, Program Assistant at University of South Carolina Lancaster, and Jay Bender<\/strong>, former attorney for the Catawba Indian Nation.You can view the recorded program HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, March 15, 4pm<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Deep Dive 2: The Intersection of Slavery and Capitalism. We are pleased to welcome back <\/b>Dr. Justene Hill Edwards,<\/strong><\/a> associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. Her field of research is the intersection of African \u2013<\/span>American history, slavery and American capitalism. Her first book, published in 2021, is Unfree Markets. <\/i><\/b>The Slaves\u2019 Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina <\/i><\/b>examines how the capitalist development of slavery influenced the economic lives of enslaved people. Her 2024 book, Savings and Trust; The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman\u2019s Bank<\/i><\/b>, details how the Freedman\u2019s Bank, a bold Reconstruction plan to securely hold deposits for African-American soldiers and newly freed civilians in the Beaufort area, was ultimately betrayed and how it shaped economic inequality in America.<\/p>\n

You can view the recorded program HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday March 22, 4pm<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Deep Dive 3: Nationally acclaimed historians Dr. Vernon Burton<\/a> and Fergus Bordewich<\/a> will unpack South Carolina\u2019s outsized and unique role in ensuring the USA was born as a slave nation.<\/strong> Vernon, a SC native, spent days interviewing Modjeska Simkins in 1972 for his PhD dissertation at Princeton, and has become a leading scholar and author of Lincoln and Reconstruction. Fergus\u2019 2013 book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,<\/i><\/b> focuses on the arrest of more than 1,000 white terrorists in South Carolina\u2019s Upstate by federal troops in 1871.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can watch the recording HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday March 29, 4pm<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

From Red Shirts to Proud Boys, from the Klan to ICE, the modus operandi of racist autocracy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guest: Dr. Jennifer Taylor<\/a>.<\/strong> Dr. Taylor earned her PhD at USC, and is an Assistant Professor of Public History at Duquesne University. She specializes in debunking myths and telling true stories about our painful past. She addresses the tensions involved between the romanticized history told by the winners and the peoples\u2019 lived history. She offers best practices for interpreting issues such as white supremacy and domestic political terrorism for public audiences. Her recent book Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the Future of the House Museum,<\/i><\/a> tells how the Woodrow Wilson boyhood home in Columbia was upgraded for the 21st Century as the Museum of the Reconstruction Era. Rebirth<\/i> is available in hardback and paperback, as well as a free open access e-book through the University of South Carolina Press.<\/p>\n

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