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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 25 days 8 hours 10 minutes
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
Conversations on S.C. History: The State & the New Nation - The Unification of the Slave State
(Originally broadcast 03/10/17) - In this final installment of public Conversations on South Carolina: The State and the New Nation, 1783-1828 , Dr. Brent Morris, associate professor of history and chair of the humanities at the University of South
Conversations on S.C. History: The State & the New Nation - The Unification of the Slave State
(Originally broadcast 03/10/17) - In this final installment of public…
Conversations on S.C. History: The State & the New Nation - The Ideology & Public Policy of Slavery
(Originally broadcast 02/24/17) - Join us for the third public conversation in a four-part series of Conversations on South Carolina: The State and the New Nation, 1783-1828 . Dr. Lacy Ford, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences University of South
Conversations on S.C. History: The State & the New Nation - Slavery in South Carolina
(Originally broadcast 02/17/17) - For the second lecture in this four-part…
Conversations on S.C. History: The State & the New Nation - Slavery in South Carolina
(Originally broadcast 02/17/17) - For the second lecture in this four-part series of Conversations on South Carolina: The State and the New Nation, 1783-1828 . Dr. Larry Watson discusses slavery in South Carolina. Professor Watson is Associate Professor
Conversations on S.C. History: The State and the New Nation, 1783-1828 - The Importance of Cotton
(Originally broadcast 02/10/17) - Dr. Peter Coclanis, the Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professor & Director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, joins Dr. Edgar for the first of a series of
South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from The S.C. Historical Association
(Originally broadcast 03/24/17) - South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras (USC Press, 2016) is an anthology of the most enduring and important scholarly articles about the Civil War and Reconstruction era published in the peer-reviewed
The Return of Hemp
Hemp was once one of the crops grown in South Carolina and exported to the world. That changed, however, when enforcement of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 effectively made possession or transfer of hemp illegal throughout the United States under federal
Senator Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings on Walter Edgar's Journal
Former S.C. Governor and U.S. Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings died on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at the age of 97. A Democrat, he held elective office for over fifty years. In 2008, Hollings talked with Walter Edgar about his life in politics and government,