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Walter Edgar's Journal

South Carolina Public Radio

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.

2024 South Carolina Public Radio

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.

2024 South Carolina Public Radio
277hr 9min
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September 5, 202532min 3sec30.78 MB
Thumbnail for "Witness to change: George Anson and colonial Charleston".
August 15, 202547min 51sec45.95 MB
Thumbnail for "Beyond the western wall: Henry Tisdale and the transformation of Claflin University".
August 1, 202546min 9sec44.31 MB
Thumbnail for "SC A-Z - Back stories".
July 18, 202534min 10sec32.81 MB
Thumbnail for "The South never plays itself: The South on screen".
July 4, 202541min 39sec39.99 MB
Thumbnail for "The Francis Marion papers: The legend, tactics and life of the Swamp Fox".
June 20, 202548min 46sec46.82 MB
Thumbnail for "Mother Emanuel: Two centuries of race, resistance, and forgiveness".
June 6, 20251hr 4min61.74 MB
Thumbnail for "The Zombie Memes of Dixie".
May 16, 202538min 25sec36.89 MB
Thumbnail for "Exploring "South Carolina from A to Z" - Ep. 2".
May 2, 202528min 25sec27.7 MB
Thumbnail for "On the trail: Johnny D. Boggs' journey from the swamps of the Pee Dee to the Old West".
April 18, 202535min 42sec34.67 MB
Thumbnail for "Exploring "South Carolina from A to Z"".
April 4, 202535min 24sec34 MB
Thumbnail for "The cost of the vote: George Elmore and the battle for the ballot".
March 21, 202534min 23sec33.03 MB
Thumbnail for "Backcountry war: The rise of Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, and Thomas Sumter in the American Revolution".
March 7, 202537min 45sec36.16 MB
Thumbnail for ""Somewhere toward freedom" - Sherman's March and the story of America's largest Emancipation ".
February 21, 202539min 2sec37.48 MB
Thumbnail for "North of Main: Spartanburg's historic Black neighborhoods".
February 7, 202538min 39sec37.11 MB
Thumbnail for "Settler violence, native resistance, and the coalescence of the Old South".
January 24, 202537min 50sec36.62 MB
Thumbnail for "Remembering Nathalie Dupree".
January 17, 202545min 3sec43.61 MB
Thumbnail for "Raptors in the ricelands".
January 3, 202531min 22sec30.47 MB
Thumbnail for "Charleston's Nathaniel Russell House: Kitchen house archaeology sheds new light on the life of the enslaved".
December 20, 202445min 13sec43.42 MB
Thumbnail for "Marjory Wentworth: One River, One Boat".
December 6, 202432min 29sec31.19 MB
Thumbnail for "Romancing the Gullah in the age of Porgy and Bess".
November 15, 202439min 46sec38.19 MB
Thumbnail for "Lincoln's unfinished work: The new birth of freedom from generation to generation".
This week, we offer you an encore of an episode from our broadcast archive: A…
November 1, 202444min 1sec42.26 MB
Thumbnail for "Southern/Modern: Modernism in Southern art from the first half of the twentieth century".
This week we will be talking with Jonathan Stuhlman and Martha Severens about…
October 18, 202435min 15sec33.85 MB
Thumbnail for "Reconstruction beyond 150".
October 4, 202431min 50sec30.58 MB
Thumbnail for "A short history of Greenville".
September 20, 202436min 46sec35.32 MB
Thumbnail for "The miraculous art of jazz".
September 6, 202427min 41sec26.59 MB
Thumbnail for "Joy is the justice we give ourselves".
August 16, 202434min 7sec32.76 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: 'This fierce people' - the untold story of America's Revolutionary War in the South".
This week on the Journal we will be talking with Alan Pell Crawford about his…
August 2, 202442min 7sec40.45 MB
Thumbnail for "Lowcountry at High Tide".
For centuries residents of Charleston, SC, have made many attempts, both public…
July 19, 202441min 39sec39.99 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: How Jewish entrepreneurs built economy and community in Upcountry South Carolina".
This week we will be talking with Diane Vecchio about her book, Peddlers,…
July 5, 202433min 44sec32.39 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: Payne-ful Business - Charleston’s Journey to Truth".
Margaret Seidler thought she knew her family’s history. Then, a genealogical…
June 21, 202439min 38sec37.97 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: The story of the Mighty Moo, the USS Cowpens".
In 1976, the Cowpens, SC, Bicentennial Committee decided that the next town…
June 7, 202439min 32sec37.96 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: Sleeping with the ancestors - The Slave Dwelling Project".
This week we're talking with Joseph McGill and Herb Frazier, authors of…
May 17, 202433min 59sec32.64 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: The story of Fort Sumter".
This week we'll be talking with Richard Hatcher, author of the book, Thunder in…
May 3, 202443min 22sec41.65 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: Finding the 1768 Charleston lighthouse in the fog of history".
This week, we'll be talking with author Kevin Duffus about his book, The 1768…
April 19, 202443min 22sec41.95 MB
Thumbnail for "The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina family, from slavery to the dawn of integration".
In his book, The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from…
April 5, 202435min 37sec34.5 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: Tea and the American Revolution, 1773–1776".
On the Journal this week we will be talking with Robert James Fichter about his…
March 15, 202435min 22sec34.27 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: Injustice in focus - The Civil Rights photography of Cecil Williams".
This week we talk with Claudia Smith Brinson about her new book, Injustice in…
March 1, 202437min 43sec36.53 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: La Florida - Catholics, Conquistadores, and Other American Origin Stories".
In this episode, we'll talk with Prof. Kevin Kokomoor about his book, La…
February 16, 202436min 35sec35.43 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: George Singleton - Asides: Occasional Essays".
This week we have a fun conversation with author George Singleton about his new…
February 2, 202432min 32sec31.54 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar’s Journal: Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim - 275 years as a community of faith".
Founded in 1749, Charleston, South Carolina's (KKBE) is one of the oldest…
January 19, 202430min 31sec29.61 MB
Thumbnail for "Methodists & moonshiners: Another Prohibition expedition through the South".
This week we'll be talking with Kathryn Smith, author of Methodists &…
January 5, 202433min 35sec32.55 MB
Thumbnail for "“Our Country First, Then Greenville" - A New South City during the Progressive Era and World War I".
Greenville, South Carolina, has become an attractive destination, frequently…
December 29, 202330min 57sec30.02 MB
Thumbnail for "Charleston Horse Power: Equine Culture in the Palmetto City".
This episode we'll be talking with Christina Rae Butler about Charleston, SC:…
December 15, 202336min 13sec35.07 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: Kugels & Collards - Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina".
On this edition of The Journal, Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey…
December 1, 202333min 46sec32.72 MB
Thumbnail for "The International African American Museum: Honoring the untold stories of the African American journey".
This week we will talk with Dr. Bernard Powers about the establishment of the…
November 17, 202334min 48sec33.71 MB
Thumbnail for "'Captured Freedom': A compelling photo tells a harrowing story of survival".
Our guest this week, Steve Procko, tells us the true story of nine Union…
November 3, 202330min 4sec29.15 MB
Thumbnail for "Mark Catesby: Nature's Messenger".
In 1722, Mark Catesby stepped ashore in Charles Town in the Carolina colony.…
October 20, 202329min 50sec28.93 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: The Spingarn brothers - White privilege, Jewish heritage, and the struggle for racial equality".
In her book, The Spingarn Brothers: White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the…
October 6, 202335min 38sec34.51 MB
Thumbnail for "Gullah culture in America".
This week, Dr. Eric Crawford, a Gullah/Geechee scholar and Associate Professor…
September 29, 202328min 45sec27.9 MB
Thumbnail for "Journalist Adam Parker’s look at the culture, conflict, and creativity of the South".
Veteran journalist Adam Parker has covered just about everything for…
September 15, 202331min 30sec30.53 MB
Thumbnail for "Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South".
The Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading…
September 1, 202335min 6sec34 MB
Thumbnail for "Film critic Ben Beard continues his journey through the South on screen".
In his book, The South Never Plays Itself, author, and film critic Ben Beard…
August 18, 202334min 17sec33.21 MB
Thumbnail for "Charleston to Phnom Penh - A Cook's Journal".
Charleston, South Carolina’s John Martin Taylor is a culinary historian and…
August 4, 202324min 2sec23.37 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar’s Journal: Legend - Francis Marion in the Pee Dee".
In this episode Ben Zeigler and Stephen Motte from the Florence County Museum…
July 21, 202339min 26sec38.16 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar’s Journal: A photographic history of the Civil Rights era".
Acclaimed civil rights photographer Cecil Williams, founder of the Cecil…
July 7, 202328min 29sec27.57 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: Revolutionary roads".
In his book, Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America…
June 30, 202335min 32sec34.33 MB
Thumbnail for "An innovative strategy revives the economy of a small town and helps create a major industry".
June 16, 2023 — This week Dr. Jennifer Elfenbein will tell us about an…
June 16, 202329min 13sec28.27 MB
Thumbnail for "Where have all the shrimp boats gone?".
June 2, 2023 — People have been catching and eating shrimp off the coast of the…
June 2, 202328min 11sec27.28 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal, past and future".
Someone once said, “All roads lead to Rome.” Maybe...But longtime historian,…
May 26, 202351min 59sec50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "Carolina's lost colony: Stuarts Town and the struggle for survival in early South Carolina".
In his new book, Carolina's Lost Colony: Stuarts Town and the Struggle for…
May 15, 202351min 59sec50.09 MB
Thumbnail for "Clemson professor Drew Lanham: the "genius" in his MacArthur Foundation grant is freedom to "do me"".
Edgefield native Drew Lanham wasn’t entirely sure what the phone call from…
May 8, 202351min 59sec50.07 MB
Thumbnail for "C. Vann Woodward: America's historian".
In his fresh and revealing biography, C. Vann Woodward: America's Historian…
May 1, 20231min 38sec1.59 MB
Thumbnail for "Citadel professor redefines key battle that changed the course of the Hundred Years War".
With his book, Crécy: Battle of Five Kings (2022, Osprey), Michael Livingston,…
April 24, 202352min 15sec50.32 MB
Thumbnail for "The South Never Plays Itself - a history of the Deep South on screen".
Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915,…
April 17, 202352min 15sec50.34 MB
Thumbnail for "Revolutionary revelations: remains of soldiers from the Battle of Camden to be re-interred with honors".
In 1780, Camden was the oldest and largest town in the Carolina backcountry. It…
April 10, 202352min 15sec50.33 MB
Thumbnail for "Saving a legacy, one fish fry at a time".
Mable Owens Clarke is the sixth-generation steward and matriarch of Soapstone…
April 4, 202352min 15sec50.32 MB
Thumbnail for "The Liberty Trail: The trail to independence".
America’s independence was secured in South Carolina, across its swamps,…
March 27, 202352min 15sec50.31 MB
Thumbnail for "Drayton Hall stories: A place and its people".
George McDaniel served as the Executive Director of Drayton Hall, a…
March 20, 202352min 15sec50.33 MB
Thumbnail for "History and horticulture at Historic Columbia's Hampton-Preston Mansion site".
Historic Columbia’s Boyd Foundation Horticultural Center, located on the…
March 13, 202352min 15sec50.33 MB
Thumbnail for "'Black Snow': SC author chronicles desperate measures taken to end WWII fighting in the Pacific".
Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s…
March 6, 202351min 59sec50.09 MB
Thumbnail for "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…
February 20, 202352min 15sec50.31 MB
Thumbnail for "Origins of "The Wheel of Time"".
In his latest book, Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies…
February 13, 202352min 15sec50.32 MB
Thumbnail for "Stolen dreams: the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars".
When the 11- and 12-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA all-star team…
February 6, 202352min 15sec50.31 MB
Thumbnail for "Lincoln’s unfinished work - the new birth of Freedom from generation to generation".
In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s…
January 30, 202352min 15sec50.34 MB
Thumbnail for "How the Blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard Changed the Course of America’s Civil Rights History".
In this week's episode of Walter Edgar's Journal, Richard Gergel details the…
January 23, 202352min50.11 MB
Thumbnail for "Charleston Patriots in Exile During the Revolution".
In the months following the May 1780 capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by…
January 16, 202352min 15sec50.34 MB
Thumbnail for "C. Vann Woodward: America's historian".
With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann…
January 9, 202351min 59sec50.09 MB
Thumbnail for "The South of the Mind".
How did conceptions of a tradition-bound, "timeless" South shape Americans'…
December 26, 202252min 15sec50.32 MB
Thumbnail for "A History of the Southern Conference".
This time on Walter Edgar’s Journal, former SoCon commissioner John Iamarino,…
December 19, 202252min 16sec50.37 MB
Thumbnail for "Revolutionary revelations: remains of soldiers from the Battle of Camden recovered, studied - to be re-interred with honors".
In 1780, Camden was the oldest and largest town in the Carolina backcountry. It…
December 12, 202252min 15sec50.33 MB
Thumbnail for "Clemson professor Drew Lanham: the "genius" in his MacArthur Foundation grant is freedom to "do me"".
Edgefield native Drew Lanham wasn’t entirely sure what the phone call from…
December 5, 202252min 16sec50.33 MB
Thumbnail for "Open Space Institute works in concert with others to protect South Carolina's scenic, natural, and historic landscapes".
The Open Space Institute’s mission is to protect scenic, natural, and historic…
November 28, 202252min 16sec50.35 MB
Thumbnail for "Lowcountry at high tide".
The signs are there: our coastal cities are increasingly susceptible to…
November 21, 202252min 16sec50.34 MB
Thumbnail for "Stolen dreams: the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars".
When the 11- and 12-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA all-star team…
November 14, 202252min 16sec50.32 MB
Thumbnail for "Roots and consequences of 'The Great War'".
November 11th is currently celebrated as Veteran’s Day in the United States.…
November 7, 202252min 46sec50.81 MB
Thumbnail for "The inside story of Hootie and the Blowfish".
In 1985, Mark Bryan heard Darius Rucker singing in a dorm shower at the…
October 31, 202252min 15sec50.35 MB
Thumbnail for "Citadel professor redefines key battle that changed the course of the Hundred Years War".
With his book, Crécy: Battle of Five Kings (2022, Osprey), Michael Livingston,…
October 24, 202252min 16sec50.33 MB
Thumbnail for "Celebrating okra, seed to stem".
Chris Smith’s first encounter with okra was of the worst kind: slimy fried okra…
October 17, 202252min 16sec78.73 MB
Thumbnail for "Jackson Station: Music, Community, and Tragedy in Southern Blues Bar".
Daniel Harrison, author of Live at Jackson Station: Music, Community, and…
October 10, 202252min 14sec88.32 MB
Thumbnail for "Rediscovering some of South Carolina's signature foods and the stories behind them".
In their new book, Taste the State: South Carolina's Signature Foods, Recipes,…
October 3, 202252min 46sec83.13 MB
Thumbnail for "Into the light: the electrification of rural South Carolina".
Early in the twentieth century, for-profit companies such as Duke Power and…
September 26, 202252min 16sec86.61 MB
Thumbnail for "Brookgreen Gardens - its history and its expanding mission".
In 2022, USC Press published Brookgreen Gardens: Ever Changing. Simply Amazing.…
September 19, 202252min 11sec80.38 MB
Thumbnail for "The growth and value of "public history"".
Dr. Constance Schulz, Distinguished Professor Emerita of the University of…
September 12, 202252min 15sec85.44 MB
Thumbnail for "Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Charleston Renaissance Artist".
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876–1958), a leader of the Charleston Renaissance,…
September 5, 202251min 59sec84.28 MB
Thumbnail for "Shrimp Tales".
Shrimp, one of our most delicious food sources, was once only considered worthy…
August 29, 202251min 59sec85.9 MB
Thumbnail for "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – 150 years".
In 2021, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers celebrates the 150th anniversary of…
August 22, 202252min 15sec86.8 MB
Thumbnail for "'Black Snow': SC author chronicles desperate measures taken to end WWII fighting in the Pacific".
Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s…
August 15, 202252min 15sec86.38 MB
Thumbnail for "Stephen A. Swails - a forgotten Black freedom fighter in the Civil War & Reconstruction".
Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North…
August 8, 202252min 15sec87.54 MB
Thumbnail for "History and horticulture at Historic Columbia's Hampton-Preston Mansion site".
Historic Columbia’s Boyd Foundation Horticultural Center, located on the…
August 1, 202252min 15sec86.44 MB
Thumbnail for "Drayton Hall stories: A place and its people".
George McDaniel served as the Executive Director of Drayton Hall, a…
July 25, 202252min 15sec86.21 MB
Thumbnail for "The Liberty Trail: The trail to independence".
America’s independence was secured in South Carolina, across its swamps,…
July 18, 202252min 15sec85.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Justice deferred - race and the Supreme Court".
In their book, Justice Deferred - Race and the Supreme Court (2021, Belknap…
July 11, 202252min 47sec86.78 MB
Thumbnail for "The Promise of the Pelican".
At once a literary crime novel and an intergenerational family drama, Roy…
July 4, 202252min 15sec94.25 MB
Thumbnail for "Enabling Veterans in South Carolina to live their best lives".
In 2020, Maj. General (Ret.) William F. Grimsley became South Carolina's first…
June 27, 202252min 15sec86.39 MB
Thumbnail for "American Landmark: Charles Duell and the Rebirth of Middleton Place".
Charles Duell inherited the historic properties Middleton Place and the…
June 20, 202252min 15sec86.12 MB
Thumbnail for "The inside story of Hootie and the Blowfish".
In 1985, Mark Bryan heard Darius Rucker singing in a dorm shower at the…
June 13, 202252min 15sec89.62 MB
Thumbnail for "Baptists and Bootleggers".
In her book, Baptists and Bootleggers: A Prohibition Expedition Through the…
June 6, 202252min 15sec85.42 MB
Thumbnail for "Timmonsville native Johnny D. Boggs writes about the historic frontier - whether it's in South Carolina or in Texas".
Timmonsville native Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, been bucked off horses,…
May 23, 202252min 15sec84.03 MB
Thumbnail for "Shrimp Tales".
Shrimp, one of our most delicious food sources, was once only considered worthy…
May 16, 202252min 15sec87.12 MB
Thumbnail for "Into the light: the electrification of rural South Carolina".
Early in the twentieth century, for-profit companies such as Duke Power and…
May 9, 202252min 15sec50.32 MB
Thumbnail for "To the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Dan".
“In the most barren inhospitable unhealthy part of North America, opposed by…
May 2, 202251min 59sec50.12 MB
Thumbnail for "The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670 - 1720".
In his book, The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 (2020,…
April 25, 202252min 15sec50.36 MB
Thumbnail for "Open Space Institute works in concert with others to protect South Carolina's scenic, natural, and historic landscapes".
The Open Space Institute’s mission is to protect scenic, natural, and historic…
April 20, 202251min 59sec50.09 MB
Thumbnail for "Enabling Veterans in South Carolina to live their best lives".
In 2020, Maj. General (Ret.) William F. Grimsley became South Carolina's first…
April 11, 202251min 59sec50.12 MB
Thumbnail for "The myths and hard facts of the Atlantic slave trade".
For many years scholars made assumptions about how Europeans traded with West…
April 4, 202251min 59sec50.09 MB
Thumbnail for "Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution".
In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American…
March 31, 202252min50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "The Federal Courts and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in South Carolina".
In his book, The Slow Undoing: The Federal Courts and the Long Struggle for…
March 21, 202251min 59sec50.08 MB
Thumbnail for "Stephen A. Swails - a forgotten Black freedom fighter in the Civil War & Reconstruction".
Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North…
March 14, 202251min 59sec50.11 MB
Thumbnail for "American Landmark: Charles Duell and the Rebirth of Middleton Place".
Charles Duell inherited the historic properties Middleton Place and the…
March 7, 202251min 59sec50.11 MB
Thumbnail for "The River Alliance: Creating Vibrant Riverfront in the Midlands".
River Alliance CEO Mike Dawson talks with Walter Edgar about how the Alliance…
February 28, 202251min 59sec50.09 MB
Thumbnail for "Timmonsville native Johnny D. Boggs writes about the historic frontier - whether it's in South Carolina or in Texas".
Timmonsville native Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, been bucked off horses,…
February 21, 202251min 59sec50.08 MB
Thumbnail for "Baptists and Bootleggers".
In her book, Baptists and Bootleggers: A Prohibition Expedition Through the…
February 14, 202251min 59sec50.09 MB
Thumbnail for "Coastal South Carolina Fish and Game: History, Culture and Conservation".
Few people are familiar with the full history that shaped and preserved the…
February 7, 202251min 59sec50.09 MB
Thumbnail for "Francis Marion: Rediscovering the Revolutionary War Battle at Parker's Ferry".
In March of 2021, the South Carolina Battlefield Preservation Trust purchased…
January 31, 202251min 59sec50.07 MB
Thumbnail for "The Charleston Gambit - romance amidst the brutal realities of the American Revolution".
This week on Walter Edgar’s Journal we offer a conversation recorded before an…
January 25, 202251min 59sec86.44 MB
Thumbnail for ""Never greater slaughter" - the battle of Brunanburh and the birth of England".
In his book, Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England…
January 10, 202251min 59sec86.17 MB
Thumbnail for "100 years of the Poetry Society of South Carolina".
James Lundy's book, The History of the Poetry Society of South Carolina: 1920…
January 6, 202251min 59sec86.75 MB
Thumbnail for "Why Southern Identity Still Matters".
The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half…
December 27, 202151min 59sec49.95 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: A history professor on the radio?".
This fall Walter Edgar's Journal has been celebrating 21 years on the air by…
December 20, 202151min 59sec85.5 MB
Thumbnail for "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – 150 years".
In 2021, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers celebrates the 150th anniversary of…
December 13, 202151min 59sec50.08 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: What was the most influential Southern novel of the 20th century?".
As part of our continuing celebration of Walter Edgar’s Journal at 21 we…
December 9, 202151min 59sec50.06 MB
Thumbnail for "Justice deferred - race and the Supreme Court".
In their book, Justice Deferred - Race and the Supreme Court (2021, Belknap…
November 29, 202151min 59sec86.2 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: The weight of mercy - a novice pastor on the city streets".
In celebration of Walter Edgar’s Journal at 21, this week's episode is an…
November 22, 202151min 59sec85.01 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: Death and the Civil War".
In celebration of Walter Edgar’s Journal at 21, this week's episode is an…
November 15, 202151min 59sec81.17 MB
Thumbnail for "Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution".
In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American…
November 8, 202151min 59sec84.98 MB
Thumbnail for "Walter Edgar's Journal: A history professor on the radio?".
This fall Walter Edgar's Journal has been celebrating 21 years on the air by…
November 4, 202151min 59sec85.5 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: Growing up with The Great Santini".
In celebration of Walter Edgar’s Journal at 21, this week's episode is an…
October 25, 202151min 59sec85.22 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: What is real southern cooking?".
In celebration of Walter Edgar’s Journal at 21, this week's episode is an…
October 19, 202151min 59sec87.56 MB
Thumbnail for "Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands".
In Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina…
October 14, 202148min 32sec80.02 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: World War II battlefield hero - T. Moffatt Burriss and the crossing".
In celebration of Walter Edgar’s Journal at 21, this week's episode is an…
October 4, 202151min 59sec86.07 MB
Thumbnail for "The Federal Courts and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in South Carolina".
In his book, The Slow Undoing: The Federal Courts and the Long Struggle for…
September 27, 202151min 59sec85.62 MB
Thumbnail for "Francis Marion: Rediscovering the Revolutionary War Battle at Parker's Ferry".
In March of 2021, the South Carolina Battlefield Preservation Trust purchased…
September 21, 202151min 59sec73.97 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: Dixie Bohemia - A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s".
A part of our celebration of Walter Edgar's Journal at 21 we present an encore…
September 13, 202151min 59sec88.16 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a 19th-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World".
As part of our on-going series, Walter Edgar's Journal at 21, we revisit a…
September 13, 202151min 59sec77.4 MB
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On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, Walter…
September 8, 202149min 11sec80.95 MB
Thumbnail for "Coastal South Carolina Fish and Game: History, Culture and Conservation".
Few people are familiar with the full history that shaped and preserved the…
September 6, 202151min 59sec86.82 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: A Public Conversation with Pat Conroy".
As part of our continuing series of encore episodes celebrating The Journal at…
August 30, 202151min 59sec78.47 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: The Life and Times of Judge Matthew J. Perry".
This week on Walter Edgar's Journal, we offer another in our series of encore…
August 23, 202151min 59sec80.31 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: Charles Joyner on "Down by the Riverside - A South Carolina Slave Community"".
In Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, Charles Joyner…
August 9, 202151min 59sec84.06 MB
Thumbnail for "The River Alliance: Creating Vibrant Riverfront in the Midlands".
River Alliance CEO Mike Dawson talks with Walter Edgar about how the Alliance…
August 2, 202151min 59sec50.08 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: Cokie Roberts - "Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation"".
For this episode celebrating Walter Edgar's Journal at 21, we’ve dusted off a…
July 26, 202151min 59sec50.05 MB
Thumbnail for "Baptized in Sweet Tea".
The late Ken Burger spent almost 40 years writing for two South Carolina…
July 19, 202151min 59sec50.05 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness".
On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church…
July 12, 202151min 59sec50.13 MB
Thumbnail for "Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Charleston Renaissance Artist".
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876–1958), a leader of the Charleston Renaissance,…
July 5, 202151min 59sec50.08 MB
Thumbnail for "WEJ at 21: How Partisans Fighting in South Carolina Helped Win the American Revolution".
General U.S. history courses in many high schools depict the American…
June 28, 202152min49.87 MB
Thumbnail for "The Tragic Story of the Hamlet Fire".
On the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing…
June 21, 202151min 59sec50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "Rediscovered Ancestry: a Family Learns the Story of Their Remarkable Ancestor, Senator Lawrence Cain".
In his book, The Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator (2021, Rocky Pond…
June 14, 202151min 59sec50.07 MB
Thumbnail for "The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre".
Kathryn Smith, author of Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford…
June 11, 202151min 59sec50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "George Singleton: You Want More".
George Singleton joins Walter Edgar to talk about his new collection of short…
May 31, 202151min 59sec50.08 MB
Thumbnail for "A Year Like No Other and "The Summer of Lost and Found" - A Conversation with Mary Alice Monroe".
New York Times bestselling author, Mary Alice Monroe, talks with Walter Edgar…
May 24, 202151min 59sec50.06 MB
Thumbnail for "The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History".
This week on Walter Edgar’s Journal, John S. Sledge’s talks with Walter about…
May 17, 202151min 59sec50.06 MB
Thumbnail for "The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670 - 1720".
In his book, The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 (2020,…
May 10, 202151min 59sec50.11 MB
Thumbnail for "Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas".
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the…
May 3, 202151min 59sec50.14 MB
Thumbnail for "Jackson Station: Music, Community, and Tragedy in Southern Blues Bar".
Daniel Harrison, author of Live at Jackson Station: Music, Community, and…
April 26, 202151min 59sec50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "A History of the Southern Conference".
This time on Walter Edgar’s Journal, former SoCon commissioner John Iamarino,…
April 23, 202151min 59sec50.11 MB
Thumbnail for "Rediscovered Ancestry: a Family Learns the Story of Their Remarkable Ancestor, Senator Lawrence Cain".
In his book, The Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator (2021, Rocky Pond…
April 12, 202151min 59sec50.07 MB
Thumbnail for "The Tragic Story of the Hamlet Fire".
On the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing…
April 6, 202151min 59sec50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre".
Kathryn Smith, author of Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford…
March 31, 202151min 59sec50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "George Singleton: You Want More".
George Singleton joins Walter Edgar to talk about his new collection of short…
March 22, 202151min 59sec50.08 MB
Thumbnail for "How the Blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard Changed the Course of America’s Civil Rights History".
On February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African…
March 8, 202151min 59sec50.11 MB
Thumbnail for "In Her Shoes: A History of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina".
The League of Women Voters of South Carolina has a long and colorful history.…
March 1, 202151min 59sec50.06 MB
Thumbnail for "The Beginnings of Black Activism in South Carolina".
After World War I, Black South Carolinians, despite poverty and discrimination,…
February 22, 202151min 59sec50.15 MB
Thumbnail for "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…
February 15, 202151min 59sec50 MB
Thumbnail for "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina".
In her new book, Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South…
February 8, 202151min 59sec50.13 MB
Thumbnail for "Charleston Patriots in Exile During the Revolution".
In the months following the May 1780 capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by…
February 1, 202151min 59sec50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature".
“In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of…
January 25, 202151min 59sec49.88 MB
Thumbnail for "Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965".
In spite of a growing movement for journalistic neutrality in reporting the…
January 18, 202151min 59sec49.97 MB
Thumbnail for "Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Professor at USC".
Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar.…
January 14, 202151min 59sec50.03 MB
Thumbnail for "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina".
In her new book, Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South…
November 9, 202051min 59sec50.13 MB
Thumbnail for "The Carolina-Barbados Connection That Shaped South Carolina".
It is hard to imagine what South Carolina would be today if not for the…
October 12, 202051min 59sec50.07 MB
Thumbnail for "Country Music".
Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone’s Country Music USA has won…
October 5, 202051min 3sec49.32 MB
Thumbnail for "Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection".
Spanning the decades between the late 1890s and early 1960s, The Johnson…
September 28, 202058min 29sec56.19 MB
Thumbnail for "Ups and Downs: South Carolina’s Economy During World War I".
South Carolina in 1918 was still struggling with the changes to its economic…
August 7, 202051min 59sec59.06 MB
Thumbnail for "South Carolina Progressives During World War I".
(Originally broadcast 03/02/18) - There were progressives in South Carolina in…
July 27, 202051min 59sec74.87 MB
Thumbnail for "Fighting on Two Fronts: Black South Carolinians in World War I".
Upon the United States' entrance into World War I, President Woodrow Wilson…
July 20, 202051min 59sec74.86 MB
Thumbnail for "South Carolina in WWI: The Military".
With the United States’ entrance into World War I, three Army training bases…
July 13, 202051min 59sec74.85 MB
Thumbnail for "Reconstruction and the African American Struggle for Equality in the South".
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has said, "Reconstruction is one of the most…
June 22, 202051min 59sec75.07 MB
Thumbnail for "What Does Freedom Mean? The Agency of Black People Before and After Emancipation".
On June 19th, 1865, Union general Gordon Granger read federal orders in…
June 17, 202051min 59sec74.99 MB
Thumbnail for "The Winning of the American Revolution - in the South".
General U.S. history courses in many high schools depict the American…
June 8, 202051min 59sec49.85 MB
Thumbnail for "The Colonial Carolina Frontier: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves".
In his book, Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the…
June 1, 202051min 59sec49.82 MB
Thumbnail for ""They Stole Him Out of Jail" - Willie Earle, South Carolina's Last Lynching Victim".
In They Stole Him Out of Jail (2019, USC Press), William B. Gravely presents…
May 11, 202051min 59sec50.14 MB
Thumbnail for "Go Inside Catering, the Food World’s Riskiest Business with Matt and Ted Lee".
This week on Walter Edgar's Journal, Mat Lee and Ted Lee drop in to talk about…
April 27, 202051min 59sec50.17 MB
Thumbnail for "Horse Racing and Horse Culture in South Carolina and Beyond".
According to the South Carolina Encyclopedia, “’The Sport of Kings’ emerged in…
March 2, 202051min 59sec50.18 MB
Thumbnail for "First in the South: Why South Carolina's Presidential Primary Matters".
Every four years presidential hopefuls and the national media travel the…
February 17, 202051min 59sec50.12 MB
Thumbnail for "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…
February 10, 202051min 59sec50.17 MB
Thumbnail for "South Carolina Between World Wars: The Charleston Renaissance".
In the years after WWI, art, poetry, historic preservation, and literature…
January 20, 202051min 59sec50.15 MB
Thumbnail for "South Carolina Between World Wars: Politics".
This week on Walter Edgar's Journal, our third program on South Carolina…
January 13, 202051min 59sec50.13 MB
Thumbnail for "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…
December 16, 201951min 59sec50 MB
Thumbnail for "My Life With Pat Conroy".
In her new book, Tell Me A Story: My Life With Pat Conroy (2019, William…
October 28, 201951min 59sec50.12 MB
Thumbnail for "The Battle of Kings Mountain and the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution".
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a military engagement between Patriot and…
September 30, 201951min 59sec50.12 MB
Thumbnail for "Remembering Cokie Roberts".
Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts has died at age 75. Roberts joined NPR in…
September 17, 201951min 36sec49.43 MB
Thumbnail for "Remembering Hurricane Hugo".
Thirty years ago this month, the strongest and most costly hurricane to strike…
September 9, 201951min 59sec50.06 MB
Thumbnail for "Remembering Dorothea Benton Frank".
On Monday, September 2, 2019, South Carolina lost a beloved author. Dorothea…
September 4, 201915min14.39 MB
Thumbnail for "Community and Conservation - the History of South Caroliona's Coastal Conservation League".
In their new book, A Wholly Admirable Thing (2018, Evening Post Books),…
July 22, 201951min 59sec50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "Chasing the Moon".
Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke joins documentary producer/director Robert…
July 1, 201951min 59sec50.09 MB
Thumbnail for "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…
May 27, 201951min 59sec49.92 MB
Thumbnail for "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…
May 13, 201951min 59sec49.93 MB
Thumbnail for "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 9, 201951min 59sec50.01 MB
Thumbnail for "Reconstruction: South Carolina and the Nation After the Civil War".
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has said, "Reconstruction is one of the most…
April 1, 201951min 59sec50.1 MB
Thumbnail for "Standardizing South Carolina’s State Flag".
Believe it or not, there is no standardized design for the South Carolina state…
February 25, 201951min 59sec50.07 MB
Thumbnail for "The State of Southern Cuisine".
January and February gave us the State of the Union address and the State of…
February 11, 201951min 59sec49.98 MB
Thumbnail for "Tariffs... 'It's Complicated'".
With recent controversies over the use of trade tariffs by the United States,…
January 28, 201951min 59sec50 MB
Thumbnail for "In Darkest South Carolina: 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…
January 21, 201951min 59sec49.99 MB
Thumbnail for "Columbia Native Brings Stories to the Big Screen".
The film producer, actor, and Columbia Native Julian Adams joins Walter Edgar…
January 14, 201951min 59sec49.95 MB
Thumbnail for "Remembering T. Moffatt Burriss, World War II Battlefield Hero".
This week's program is an encore of an episode aired in 2012, featuring T.…
January 9, 201951min 59sec49.88 MB
Thumbnail for "The Last Ballad: Ella Mae Wiggins' Life in the Mill and Death on the Picket Line".
(Originally broadcast 10/12/18) - New York Times bestselling author Wiley…
January 8, 201951min 59sec49.94 MB
Thumbnail for "Lincoln's Unfinished Work".
In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln spoke of the need to conclude “the…
November 12, 201851min 59sec49.97 MB
Thumbnail for "The Last Ballad: Life in the Mill and Death on the Picket Line".
New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash’s 2017 novel, The Last Ballad…
October 8, 201851min 59sec49.94 MB
Thumbnail for "The Most Influential 20th-Century Southern Novel?".
This month, a PBS series, The Great American Read, celebrates the joy of…
September 19, 201851min 24sec49.24 MB
Thumbnail for "Free Speech and the Responsibilities of Citizenship".
What are the guarantees of free speech found in the Constitution of the United…
September 10, 201851min 59sec49.95 MB
Thumbnail for "Crossroads: Change in Rural America".
Crossroads: Change in Rural America is a traveling Smithsonian exhibit that…
September 5, 201851min 59sec49.93 MB
Thumbnail for "New York Times: Groundbreaking African American Diva 'Overlooked No More'".
In August of 2013, Walter Edgar's Journal featured a conversation with Maureen…
September 4, 201852min 59sec38.16 MB
Thumbnail for "South Carolina's Progressives and World War I".
(Originally broadcast 03/02/18) - There were progressives in South Carolina in…
August 20, 201851min 59sec49.9 MB
Thumbnail for "Black South Carolinians, Soldiers in World War I".
Upon the United States' entrance into World War I, President Woodrow Wilson…
August 13, 201851min 59sec49.9 MB
Thumbnail for "World War I: South Carolina and the Military".
(Originally broadcast 02/09/18) - With the United States’ entrance into World…
August 6, 201851min 59sec49.89 MB
Thumbnail for "South Carolina Women and World War I".
(Originally broadcast 02/02/18) - When the United States entered the First…
July 30, 201851min 59sec49.91 MB
Thumbnail for "Parks Tell Unheard Stories of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution".
(Originally broadcast 10/13/17) - The Southern Campaign was critical in…
July 2, 201851min 59sec49.87 MB
Thumbnail for "Greenville Chautauqua History Alive: Courage".
The topic of this year’s History Alive festival presented by Greenville…
May 7, 201851min 59sec49.94 MB
Thumbnail for "Peace Voices".
Peace Voices is a spoken word outreach program of Greenville's Peace Center…
April 16, 201851min 59sec49.97 MB
Thumbnail for "Work and Economy in South Carolina During World War I".
South Carolina in 1918 was still struggling with the changes to its economic…
March 5, 201851min 59sec49.91 MB
Thumbnail for "Progressives in South Carolina During World War I".
There were progressives in South Carolina in 1918. And the progressive movement…
February 26, 201851min 59sec49.89 MB
Thumbnail for "Black South Carolinians in World War I".
Upon the United States' entrance into World War I, President Woodrow Wilson…
February 19, 201851min 59sec49.89 MB
Thumbnail for "Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities".
Film maker Stanley Nelson and Dr. Bobby Donaldson of the University of South…
February 12, 201851min 59sec49.9 MB
Thumbnail for "The Military in South Carolina in World War I".
Dr. Andrew Myers from the University of South Carolina Upstate joins Dr. Edgar…
February 5, 201851min 59sec49.89 MB
Thumbnail for "Good Boundaries Make Good Neighbors: the History of South Carolina's Northern Border".
A two-decade, joint effort between South Carolina and North Carolina has sought…
December 11, 201751min 59sec49.91 MB
Thumbnail for "Remembering Chief Justice Ernest Finney".
Justice Ernest A. Finney, Jr., South Carolina's first Africa-American chief…
December 5, 201739min 34sec37.99 MB
Thumbnail for "Over Here, Over There: the Upstate in the Great War".
Furman University's Dr. Courtney Tollison co-curated “Over Here, Over There:…
November 10, 201751min 59sec49.9 MB
Thumbnail for "Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder".
In his new book, The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary…
October 30, 201751min 59sec74.83 MB
Thumbnail for "Southern Campaign of the American Revolution Parks Tell Unheard Stories of the American Revolution".
The Southern Campaign was critical in determining the outcome of the American…
October 9, 201751min 59sec49.87 MB
Thumbnail for "Preservation South Carolina".
The Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation is now Preservation South…
October 2, 201751min 59sec49.86 MB
Thumbnail for "The Peach Bush Book Club: Flying Helicopters in Vietnam".
Note: Coinciding with broadcast on SCETV of The Vietnam War, a film by Ken…
September 18, 201753min75.28 MB
Thumbnail for "A Story of Two Soldiers".
Note: Coinciding with broadcast on SCETV of The Vietnam War, a film by Ken…
September 18, 201751min 28sec74.02 MB
Thumbnail for "Conversations on S.C. History: The State and the New Nation -Slavery in South Carolina".
(Originally broadcast 02/17/17) - For the second lecture in this four-part…
August 7, 201751min 59sec49.92 MB
Thumbnail for "Growing Economies in Small Town South Carolina".
York, SC, Mayor Ed Lee, and Reba Hull Campbell, Deputy Executive Director of…
June 19, 201751min 59sec49.87 MB
Thumbnail for "Working to Preserve "Heirs' Property" in the Lowcountry".
Heirs' property is often land that has been passed down through generations…
June 12, 201751min 59sec49.86 MB
Thumbnail for "Mary Alice Monroe and Rudy Mancke: The Treasure of South Carolina's Coastal Plain".
Best-selling author Mary Alice Monroe and Rudy Mancke, naturalist, teacher,…
June 5, 201751min 59sec49.87 MB
Thumbnail for "Greenville Chautauqua: The Power of Words".
Before radio and television, traveling cultural tent shows toured across…
May 22, 201751min 59sec49.86 MB
Thumbnail for "Family and Place in the Writings of Ron Rash".
Internationally renowned author and poet Ron Rash recently donated his personal…
May 8, 201751min 59sec49.88 MB
Thumbnail for "Artist Leo Twiggs: Requiem for Mother Emanuel".
Renowned South Carolina artist, Leo Twiggs, now 82, has long been fascinated by…
April 17, 201751min 59sec74.84 MB
Thumbnail for "The Way We Worked".
The Way We Worked is a traveling Smithsonian exhibit that explores how work…
April 3, 201751min 59sec37.5 MB
Thumbnail for "Archaeology in South Carolina: Exploring the Hidden Heritage of the Palmetto State".
Archaeology in South Carolina: Exploring the Hidden Heritage of the Palmetto…
March 27, 201751min 59sec49.88 MB
Thumbnail for "South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from The SC Historical Assoc.".
South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras (USC Press, 2016) is an…
March 20, 201751min 59sec49.91 MB
Thumbnail for "Conversations on South Carolina: The State & the New Nation - The Unification of the Slave State".
In this final installment of public Conversations on South Carolina: The State…
March 6, 201751min 59sec49.92 MB
Thumbnail for "Conversations on South Carolina: The State & the New Nation - Ideology and Public Policy of Slavery".
Join us for the third public conversation in a four-part series of…
February 28, 201751min 59sec49.9 MB
Thumbnail for "Conversations on South Carolina: The State & the New Nation - Slavery in South Carolina".
For the second lecture in this four-part series of Conversations on South…
February 20, 201751min 59sec49.92 MB
Thumbnail for "Creating a Better Way to Learn".
English naturalist Mark Catesby’s love of exploration and learning lives on…
January 23, 201752min49.97 MB
Thumbnail for "Speaking Down Barriers".
Speaking Down Barriers is a non-profit group created by Marlanda Dekine and…
January 9, 201751min 59sec49.81 MB
Thumbnail for "Flowers for the Living".
Sandra E. Johnson talks with Walter Edgar about her latest novel, Flowers for…
January 3, 201752min50.04 MB
Thumbnail for "The Risen - Ron Rash".
New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative…
November 21, 201652min49.92 MB
Thumbnail for "An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians".
In An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians, Benjamin…
October 31, 201638min 34sec55.5 MB
Thumbnail for "Henry William Ravenel and the Convergence of Science and Agriculture in the 19th Century".
Two hundred and two years after the birth of Henry William Ravenel, a 19th…
October 24, 201651min 59sec74.84 MB
Thumbnail for "All History is “Local History" to Somebody".
All history is “local history” to someone. And the preservation,…
October 17, 201651min 59sec53.74 MB
Thumbnail for "Hobcaw Barony: Between the Waters".
Hobcaw Barony is a 16,000 acre tract on the Waccamaw Neck, between the Winyah…
October 5, 201652min 59sec76.27 MB
Thumbnail for "Becoming Southern Writers: Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner".
Becoming Southern Writers: Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner (2016, USC Press)…
September 19, 201651min 59sec74.85 MB
Thumbnail for "Revolutionary Mothers: Women and the Struggle for American Independence".
In her book, Revolutionary Mothers: Women and the Struggle for American…
September 12, 201651min 59sec49.89 MB
Thumbnail for "Sharing the Legacy of Alice Ravenel Huger Smith".
The Middleton Place Foundation is helping to share the artistic legacy of…
September 5, 201651min 59sec49.89 MB
Thumbnail for "Jefferson Davis: American".
(Originally broadcast 02/07/15) -In an encore from the 2015 series,…
August 1, 201651min 59sec74.83 MB
Thumbnail for "Gettysburg".
(Originally broadcast 07/05/13) - Dr. Mark Smith, Carolina Distinguished…
June 27, 201651min 59sec74.82 MB
Thumbnail for "Outgoing Converse College President is Proud of Her School’s Growth, Record Enrollment".
Betsy Fleming, outgoing president of Converse College in Spartanburg, talks…
June 20, 201651min 59sec49.8 MB
Thumbnail for "Striving to Make Charleston Lowcountry a World Heritage Site".
The Charleston World Heritage Commission's mission is to nominate iconic…
June 6, 201652min24.59 MB
Thumbnail for "The Mayor: Joe Riley and the Rise of Charleston".
In his 40 years as Mayor of Charleston, Joe Riley has led the historic port…
May 30, 201652min24.6 MB
Thumbnail for "Carolina in Crisis: the Frontier, 1756 - 1763".
(Originally broadcast 02/19/16) - In his book, Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees,…
May 16, 201651min 59sec24.58 MB
Thumbnail for "South Carolina: the Colonial Melting Pot".
(Originally broadcast 02/12/16) - In January and February of 2016 the…
May 9, 201652min24.61 MB
Thumbnail for "March on the Ballot Boxes".
On Mother's Day 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Kingstree, South…
May 2, 201652min24.6 MB
Thumbnail for "A Life in Journalism: Pulitzer Winner Jim Hoagland".
In December of 2015, the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a grant to Humanities SC…
April 25, 201652min24.81 MB
Thumbnail for "Scenic Impressions".
The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in…
March 28, 201652min59.37 MB
Thumbnail for "Remembering Pat Conroy: a Conversation with his Family".
Pat Conroy, the beloved author of The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline…
March 14, 201653min76.22 MB
Thumbnail for "Remembering Pat Conroy: a Conversation About His Reading Life".
Pat Conroy, the beloved author of The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline…
March 6, 201653min76.22 MB
Thumbnail for "The War the South Won".
General U.S. history courses in many high schools depict the American…
February 29, 201652min53.16 MB
Thumbnail for "Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" -- Most Influential Southern Novel?".
With today's news of the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee,…
February 19, 201651min 56sec37.35 MB
Thumbnail for "The Carolina Frontier".
In his book, Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the…
February 15, 201652min53.97 MB
Thumbnail for "Conversations on Colonial & Revolutionary SC: the Colonial Melting Pot".
Earlier this year, the University of South Carolina College of Arts and…
February 1, 201652min61.65 MB
Thumbnail for "The Flood: Surviving & Rebuilding--Preparing for the Next One".
Dr. Susan Cutter knows about disasters.
January 25, 201652min58.29 MB
Thumbnail for "Circle Unbroken: Anita Singleton-Prather's Gullah Journey".
75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through the ports of…
January 4, 201652min74.77 MB
Thumbnail for "Salley McInerney: Journey Proud".
Journey Proud (Abe Books, 2013) is the story of four white children growing up…
December 14, 201551min 59sec74.35 MB
Thumbnail for "Fifty Years On: the Voting Rights Act of 1965".
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in August…
December 7, 201551min 59sec30.74 MB
Thumbnail for "American Surrealist".
Charleston surgeon Richard Hagerty began painting before medical school honed…
November 30, 201551min 58sec49.79 MB
Thumbnail for "Domestic Violence in South Carolina".
In September of 2014, the Violence Policy Center ranked South Carolina second…
November 9, 201552min49.81 MB
Thumbnail for "Preserving South Carolina's Revolutionary War Battlefields".
Several miles outside of Moncks Corner is, arguably, the most significant…
November 3, 201551min 59sec37.43 MB
Thumbnail for "A Sporting Life: the Late Ken Burger".
The late Ken Burger’s A Sporting Life (Evening Post Books, 2015) is a…
October 19, 201552min 59sec76.19 MB
Thumbnail for "Ron Rash on Walter Edgar's Journal".
This week's special Pledge Edition of Walter Edgar's Journal features an encore…
September 28, 201551min 59sec39.15 MB
Thumbnail for "Georgia O'Keeffe: Her Carolina Story".
In 1915, Georgia O'Keeffe radically redefined herself as an artist. Rejecting…
September 21, 201551min 52sec74.57 MB
Thumbnail for "The Shifting Meaning of the Confederate Battle Flag".
Since the early 1960s the Confederate battle flag had been flying at the South…
September 14, 201551min 59sec74.75 MB
Thumbnail for "Making a Difference: Jean Toal".
South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal is retiring at the end of…
September 7, 201551min 59sec74.76 MB
Thumbnail for "Lowcountry Fiction".
Walter Edgar welcomes two old friends to Walter Edgar's Journal this week,…
August 10, 201552min 1sec45.05 MB
Thumbnail for "Collecting Antiques and Art".
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August 6, 201551min 59sec45.58 MB
Thumbnail for "Charleston: Margaret Bradham Thornton".
Charleston native Margaret Bradham Thornton is the editor of the highly praised…
July 20, 201551min 59sec40.4 MB
Thumbnail for "Ron Rash: Something Rich and Strange".
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July 13, 201551min 59sec39.15 MB
Thumbnail for "A History of "Mother Emanuel" and the Black Church in South Carolina".
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July 1, 201551min 59sec35.83 MB
Thumbnail for "Extreme Barbecue".
---All stations: Fri, Jul 3, 12 pm | News stations: Sun, Jul 5, 4 pm---
June 29, 201552min36.86 MB
Thumbnail for "Denmark Vesey Only Part of a Complex Story of 19th Century Black Charlestonians".
There's a long history to the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in…
June 18, 201549min 28sec47.5 MB
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June 15, 201552min35.89 MB
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(Originally broadcast 10/30/12) - In his book, The Rise and Decline of the…
June 8, 201552min31.94 MB
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Greenville Chautauqua has been performing educational interactive historical…
June 1, 201558min 29sec39.55 MB
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May 18, 201552min 12sec41.41 MB
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May 8, 201552min 12sec39.95 MB
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April 6, 201552min 18sec42.28 MB
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March 30, 201552min 27sec40.61 MB
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March 23, 201552min 15sec39.98 MB
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The University of South Carolina’s College of Arts and Humanities and Institute…
March 2, 201552min39.55 MB
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(Note: this program was originally scheduled for 02/20/15)
February 23, 201552min 11sec50.26 MB
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Please Note: Conversations on the Civil War with guest Robert Brinkmeyer has…
February 19, 201552min 12sec50.6 MB
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February 9, 201552min 59sec63.6 MB
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Bryan Tayara and Dr. John Mark Dean share a passion for sustainable, locally…
January 26, 201552min 11sec62.63 MB
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Dr. Mark M. Smith, of the University of South Carolina, returns to The Journal…
January 19, 201552min 4sec62.49 MB
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Bestselling author Ron Rash returns to Walter Edgar’s Journal to talk about his…
January 12, 201552min 15sec62.71 MB
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With the passing of former South Carolina Governor James B. Edwards, on…
December 27, 201452min 42sec63.25 MB
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-Walter Edgar's Journal- Greenville's downtown is widely recognized as one of…
December 22, 201453min76.32 MB
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Novelist Sharyn McCrumb talks with Dr. Edgar about her new book Nora…
December 15, 201452min 11sec62.62 MB
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A product of the industrialized New South, Eugene Healan Thomason (1895–1972)…
December 9, 201451min 9sec61.38 MB
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In 1954, the U. S. Supreme Court made it's landmark ruling to end segregation…
November 26, 201452min 10sec62.61 MB
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Rep. James Clyburn drops by to talk with Walter Edgar about his life and…
November 17, 201452min 11sec62.62 MB
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A city that has nearly five million visitors a year definitely needs a tourism…
November 3, 201452min74.88 MB
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October 31, 201449min 41sec71.55 MB
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Deb Richardson-Moore, a middle-aged suburban mom and journalist was inspired to…
October 20, 201452min 48sec76.04 MB
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In The Hurricane Sisters (2014, Harper Collins), Dorothea Benton Frank again…
October 13, 201453min76.32 MB
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September 29, 201453min76.32 MB
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(Originally broadcast 04/18/14) - In his 2013 memoir, The Death of Santini: The…
September 23, 201452min 59sec50.88 MB
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(Originally broadcast 04/04/14) - Pat Conroy, author of The Water is Wide, The…
September 18, 201452min 59sec50.88 MB
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All Stations: Fri, 09/12/14, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, 09/14/14, 4 pmWalter…
September 12, 201452min 59sec50.88 MB
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(Originally Broadcast 02/28/14) - Begun as an open letter to strangers and…
August 29, 201452min 59sec50.88 MB
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Dr. Melissa Walker is the author of numerous books on the Civil War and is…
August 22, 201452min 59sec50.88 MB
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In May of 2013, a one-story, rectangular, weatherboard-clad, 19th-century slave…
September 13, 201352min 59sec38.16 MB
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(Broadcast August 23, 2013) - In April of 2013, an Army veteran from South…
August 3, 201352min 59sec38.16 MB
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(Broadcast November 02, 2012) - The Emmy-nominated documentary television…
November 12, 201253min 3sec38.15 MB
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(Broadcast November 04, 2011) - About 184,000 South Carolinians served in World…
November 1, 201153min38.16 MB
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(Broadcast May 20, 2011) - 184,000 South Carolinians served in World War II.…
May 20, 201153min76.21 MB
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(Originally broadcast 03/06/2009) - On November 16th, 2008, a dream came true…
March 9, 200652min 58sec50.85 MB

25 years of Walter Edgar’s Journal

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September 5, 202532min 3sec

This fall we are celebrating 25 years of Walter Edgar’s Journal!

We thought that a good way to start that celebration would be to look back on the launch of our podcast. So, this week we bring you an encore of our final *broadcast* episode of May 2023.

Our guest was the Director of SC Public Radio, Sean Birch. We reminisced about the Journal’s beginnings and present highlights from our years on the air. And we talked about how morphing Walter Edgar’s Journal from a weekly broadcast into a semi-monthly podcast would allow us to focus more intently on our mission to explore South Carolina’s history and its culture.

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