Historical Society Annual Meeting
About this Event
You are invited to the Annual Meeting of the Greenville County Historical Society.
This has been a year of change for the Society. We moved into a new home at the Brockman House on East Washington Street. We expanded our lecture series, strengthened our finances, and opened our collections to members online. At the meeting, we will report on the condition of the Society, review the year, and outline what comes next.
About the talk
After the business meeting, Dr. Otis Pickett, Clemson University Historian, will speak on his book Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves: Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802–1874.
Dr. Pickett examines how theology and church governance shaped relations between Black and white South Carolinians in nineteenth-century Presbyterian missions. He shows how those patterns helped build the defense of slavery and, after the Civil War, the rise of segregation. His work speaks directly to the history of the Upstate and the churches that shaped it.
The talk runs about 45 minutes, followed by questions.
This is a free event.
About the speaker
Dr. Otis W. Pickett is Clemson University’s third University Historian, appointed in July 2022. A Clemson graduate, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. Before returning to Clemson, he taught history at Mississippi College. There he co-founded the Pr*son-to-College Pipeline Program, the first in Mississippi to offer tuition-free, credit-bearing college courses to incarcerated students. A historian of religion in the American South, he studies how churches shaped race and power. His first book, Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves, was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 2025. He is a Liberty Fellow.
About the Greenville County Historical Society
The Greenville County Historical Society is the custodian of Greenville’s primary source records. Its collections hold more than 100,000 photographs, maps, letters, newspapers, and documents spanning more than 200 years. The Society preserves this record and makes it available to residents, students, and researchers.
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