Walter Edgar's Journal

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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Judge J. Waties Waring and the Secret Plan that Sparked a Civil Rights Movement


Four years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, a federal judge in Charleston hatched his secret plan to end segregation in America. Julius Waties Waring was perhaps the most unlikely civil rights hero in history.


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 December 16, 2019  51m
 
 

Judge J. Waties Waring and the Secret Plan that Sparked a Civil Rights Movement


Four years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of…


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 December 16, 2019  51m
 
 

The Quaker and the Gamecock: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the Revolutionary War in the South


As the newly appointed commander of the Southern Continental Army in December 1780, Nathanael Greene quickly realized victory would not only require defeating the British Army, but also subduing the region's brutal civil war. "The division among the


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 December 9, 2019  51m
 
 

War Stuff: The Struggle Between Armies and Civilians During the American Civil War


In War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War , her path-breaking work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between armies and civilians over the resources necessary to wage war. This


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 December 2, 2019  51m
 
 

Dawson's Fall


In Dawson’s Fall (2019, MacMillan), a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, the author tells a story of America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her


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 November 25, 2019  51m
 
 

Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age?


Andrew Jackson returned to the Oval Office, so to speak, in 2017, when President Donald Trump hung the 7 th President’s portrait there. And, Jackson will return, so to speak, to Upstate South Carolina in June at Greenville Chautauqua’s History Alive


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 November 18, 2019  51m
 
 

Daniel Morgan: a Revolutionary Life


On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion were destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was


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 November 11, 2019  51m
 
 

The South of the Mind


(Originally broadcast 07/19/19) - In his book, The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southerners, 1960–1980 (2018, UGA Press), Zachary J. Lechner bridges the fields of southern studies and southern history in an effort to discern how


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 November 4, 2019  51m
 
 

My Life With Pat Conroy


In her new book, Tell Me A Story: My Life With Pat Conroy (2019, William Morrow), bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern


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 October 28, 2019  51m
 
 

My Life With Pat Conroy


In her new book, Tell Me A Story: My Life With Pat Conroy (2019, William…


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 October 28, 2019  51m