From books to barbecue, and current events to Colonial history, historian and author Walter Edgar delves into the arts, culture, and history of South Carolina and the American South. Produced by South Carolina Public Radio.
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Matt and Ted Lee go Inside Catering, the Food World’s Riskiest Business
This week, Mat Lee and Ted Lee join Walter Edgar to talk about their new book, Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World’s Riskiest Business (2019, Henry Holt). In Hotbox , the Lee brothers take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing
Matt and Ted Lee go Inside Catering, the Food World’s Riskiest Business
This week on Walter Edgar's Journal, Mat Lee and Ted Lee drop in to talk about…
Living by Inches: Captivity in Civil War Prisons
From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps like Andersonville and Elmira, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Yet there is much we do not know about the soldiers and civilians whose very
South Carolina Between World Wars: The Beginnings of Black Activism
Black South Carolinians, despite poverty and discrimination, began to organize and lay the basis for the civil rights movement that would occur after World War II. Dr. Bobby Donaldson of the University of South Carolina talks about the efforts by black
South Carolina Between World Wars: The Charleston Renaissance
In the years after WWI, art, poetry, historic preservation, and literature flourished in Charleston, SC, and the Lowcountry during what has been called the Charleston Renaissance. Angela Mack, Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Gibbes Museum of
South Carolina Between World Wars: The Charleston Renaissance
In the years after WWI, art, poetry, historic preservation, and literature…
South Carolina Between World Wars: Politics
This week on Walter Edgar's Journal , our third program on South Carolina Between the World Wars , features Dr. Vernon Burton of Clemson University, in conversation with Walter Edgar about the politics of the period. During this time, State politics
South Carolina Between World Wars: Politics
This week on Walter Edgar's Journal, our third program on South Carolina…
South Carolina Between World Wars: The Impact of the New Deal
When the stock market crashed in 1929, ushering in the Great Depression, South Carolina was already in dire financial straits. Cotton prices had plummeted, even before the boll weevil had decimated the crop. Years of non-sustainable practices in cotton
South Carolina Between World Wars: The Great Depression
Following World War I, South Carolina’s economy collapsed. The post-World-War-I drop in demand for textiles, the subsequent collapse in cotton prices, the exhaustion of farmland through poor farming practices, and the decimation of cotton crops by the