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  Creative Inquiry
The Department is supporting
undergraduate research teams in a project to
document the Economic History of South Carolina, and
to make this information available on the web.
Our first project is related to
the founding of Clemson University itself. In the
late 1860s, Thomas Clemson made this observation
about the economy: "Our condition is wretched in the
extreme. Every one is in trouble, many ruined, and
others quitting the country in despair. There is, in
my opinion, no hope for the South short of
widespread scientific education." Thus it was that
Clemson's observation of dire economic conditions,
and his belief that education was the solution, gave
birth to the University.
In the spring of 2006, the
students of Professor Curtis Simon’s Monitoring the
Economy class set out to document the economic
conditions referred to by Thomas Green Clemson. Read
on to examine what Clemson might have meant by
"wretched in the extreme."
Continued...
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