Celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Furman University will host best-selling author and UCLA professor Eddie R. Cole, who will speak at the MLK Community Breakfast on Friday, Jan. 13, at 8 a.m. in the Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference Center on campus. The public is invited to attend. Tickets are […]
As housing prices increase and the population of Greenville continues to grow, the challenges of finding and keeping safe, affordable housing continue to rise for many of our neighbors. At this CLP, attendees will get a chance to learn about the causes and consequences of homelessness, particularly in Greenville County, through a conversation between Dr. […]
In a CLP sponsored by the Furman University Department of English, Kate Clifford Larson, author of biographies on Harriett Tubman, Fannie Lou Hammer, and others, will read from her work and discuss her process of writing biographies, from archival work to the creative exercise of telling someone else's story. Larson is a New York Times […]
Populism, the pandemic, and resurgent socialism have recently brought Americans to ask revolutionary questions, reconsidering the nation’s founding narrative and its very identity, past and future. America, of course, was birthed in revolution. What distinguishes the American revolution from other great historical revolutions? What are the origins and the consequences of the revolutionary spirit? How […]