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Kammen, Michael. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture. Westminster: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

 

Lowenthal, David. The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

 

Reel, Jerome V. The High Seminary, Volume 1: A History of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, 1889-1964. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2011. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/restricted/2/.

 

Simkin, Francis Butler. Pitchfork Ben Tillman.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1944.


 

Primary Sources

Buildings files, Tillman Hall 1890-1900, Series 37,Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina

“Deposits in Clemson College Cornerstone”,Charleston News and Courier, 28 July 1891

Tillman Hall, booklet, circa 1978

Buildings-Tillman Hall 1901-1950, Series 37, Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina

Main Building is now Tillman Hall Clemson News Review, circa May 1947 

Main Cornerstone was Laid 48 years Ago, 5 August 1939

Office of the President-Robert F. Poole Series 7, folder 6 (Building and Grounds Committee 1945-1946) Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina

Building and Grounds Committee minutes, 11 March 1946
Building and Grounds Committee Minutes, 14 May 1946
Building and Grounds Committee Minutes, 16 May 1946
Building and Grounds Committee Minutes, 16 September 1946
David Watson to President Robert F. Poole, letter, 16 May 1946
Robert F. Poole to David Watson, letter, 4 July 1946

Office of the President-Robert F. Poole, Speeches and Writing,1918-1958, Series 8, folder 6, Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina

Robert F. Poole Clemson 1946, speech, 4 October 1946


Office of the President-Robert F. Poole, Administrative Officers, Series 6, file 1926-1957, folder 16 Littlejohn, Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina

Anderson’s Independence Daily, 30 November 1943
South Carolina Heritage Act of 2000,Bill 4895., South Carolina General Assembly, 133th session, 1999-2000. https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess113_1999-2000/bills/4895.htm

The Greenville News

“Clemson Alumni Meet, Addressed by B. R. Tillman” May 19, 1946.
“Clemson Library is Assured of $30,000 Grant by Foundation”, August 9, 1946.

Tiger Newspapers, Special Collections and Archive, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson South Carolina https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/tiger_newspaper/

“Main Building Renamed;To Be Called Tillman Hall.” The Tiger, sec. Vol. XXXIX No. 36, July 12, 1946. 
University, Clemson, "The Tiger Vol. 96 Issue 13 2003-01-31" (2003). Tiger Newspapers. 1767. 
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/tiger_newspaper/1767
Campbell, Emily Rose. “Tillman Hall Awaits Renaming Decision.” The Tiger, July 7, 2021. https://www.thetigercu.com/news/tillman-hall-awaits-renaming-decision/article_5be898f0-c56b-11eb-b147-bbcca6aab5f5.html.
Hollenbeck, Sarah. “Task Force Refuses to Consider Tillman Name Change.” The Tiger, March 3, 2016. https://www.thetigercu.com/news/task-force-refuses-to-consider-tillman-name-change/article_74a7cebe-e156-11e5-a055-c379b752eeb1.html.

Tiger Prints,https://tigerprints.clemson.edu

""The Will and Codicil of Thomas G. Clemson"" (2020). Thomas Green Clemson Papers, Mss 2. 1683. 
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Clemson Trustee Minutes, Tiger Prints, June 28. 1946.https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1426&context=trustees_minutes
Clemson University Board of Trustees, "Clemson Trustees Minutes, 2015 July 17" (2015). Minutes. 637.

Tillman Papers, Mss 80, Series 7, 1926-undated, folder 30,Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina

Address to Alumni by B. R. Tillman, 18 May 1946


Tillman Papers MSS 80, Series 7 1926-undated,  Folder 31 Benjamin Tillman Research Notes-Establishment of Clemson College 1885-1912, Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina

Governor Tillman’s message, 1892

Tillman Papers, Benjamin Tillman III Correspondence Series 87, Box 59, folder 25, Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina

Robert F. Poole to Benjamin Tillman III, letter, 27 May 1946


Tillman Papers Series 87 , box 59 folder 1, Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina

Simkins etc

Physical Markers

Integration with Dignity, 1963, 2003, image/marker, Clemson South Carolina, December 2, 2021.
Tillman Hall, 2018, image/marker, Clemson South Carolina, December 2, 2021.
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