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Walter Edgar’s Journal — History
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.

Copyright: © 2023 South Carolina Public Radio

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Currier & Ives & Cameron, J. (ca. 1884) An exciting finish — Horse Racing and Horse Culture in South Carolina and Beyond Mar 02, 2020
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(Library of Congress)
According to the South Carolina Encyclopedia, “’The Sport of Kings’ emerged in South Carolina as soon as colonists gained firm footing and began amassing property and wealth enough to emulate the lifestyles of England and the Caribbean.” Horse racing and horse culture became an important part of South Carolina’s economic life in the 20^th century and continue to thrive. Dr. E. Gabrielle Kuenzli of the University of South Carolina joins Dr. Edgar to talk about horses in the Palmetto State, as well as the rest of the South, and about the important roles of Latinos to equestrian sports in the region.
All Stations: Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Mar 08, 4 pm

ballot box — First in the South: Why South Carolina's Presidential Primary Matters Feb 17, 2020
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(Tumisu via Pixabay)
Every four years presidential hopefuls and the national media travel the primary election circuit through Iowa and New Hampshire. Once the dust settles in these states, the nation's focus turns to South Carolina, the first primary in the delegate-rich South. Historically Iowa and New Hampshire have dominated the news because they are first, not because of their predictive ability or representativeness. In First in the South: Why South Carolina's Presidential Primary Matters (2020, USC Press), H. Gibbs Knotts and Jordan M. Ragusa make the case for shifting the national focus to South Carolina because of its clarifying and often-predictive role in selecting presidential nominees for both the Republican and Democratic Parties.
Knotts and Ragusa talk with Walter Edgar about how they established the foundation for their claim, and then detail how South Carolina achieved its coveted "First in the South" status and examine the increasing importance of this primary since the first contest in 1980.
All Stations: Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Feb 23, 4 pm

Ted Lee and Matt Lee — Matt and Ted Lee go Inside Catering, the Food World’s Riskiest Business Feb 10, 2020
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(Ovation)
This week on Walter Edgar's Journal, Mat Lee and Ted Lee drop in 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 the secrets of a food business few home cooks or restaurant chefs ever experience. Known for their modern take on Southern cooking, the Lee brothers steeped themselves in the catering business for four years, learning the culture from the inside-out. It’s a realm where you find eccentric characters, working in extreme conditions, who must produce magical events and instantly adapt when, for instance, the host’s toast runs a half-hour too long, a hail storm erupts, or a rolling rack of hundreds of ice cream desserts goes wheels-up.
All Stations: Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Feb 16, 4 pm

"The Reserve in Summer" from the series A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties, ca. 1935, By Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (American, 1876 - 1958); Watercolor on paper; — South Carolina Between World Wars: The Charleston Renaissance Jan 20, 2020
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(Gift of the artist; 1937.009.0027027. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art)
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 Art in Charleston, talks with Walter Edgar about the people and circumstances that came together to create this flowering of the beaux arts in the Holy City.
Mack and Edgar will also examine the obligations of museums to seek out the artistic voices of this period that were excluded from museum collections because of race or class, as well as how we must re-interpret art from this perod that represented African Americans and their lives as "lesser."
All Stations: Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Jan 26, 4 pm

James F. Byrnes. During his ten years in the Senate, Byrnes championed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. — South Carolina Between World Wars: Politics Jan 13, 2020
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( Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information)
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 remained a politics very much based on friends and neighbors – white friends and neighbors, at least. Coming out of the relative progressivism of the First World War, politics took a swing back to conservativism which ran headlong into the federal programs and policies of the New Deal – polices which helped the state start digging out of the depression. On the national scene, South Carolinians played major roles helping create and forward the strategies of the New Deal.
Dr. Vernon Burton, the Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History at Clemson University, talks with Walter Edgar about the politics of the times and how they both changed, and, remained the same.
All Stations: Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Jan 19, 4 pm

A portrait of Judge J. Waities Waring hangs in the courthouse that bears his name. — Judge J. Waties Waring and the Secret Plan that Sparked a Civil Rights Movement Dec 16, 2019
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(Victoria Hansen/SC Public Radio)
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. An eighth-generation Charlestonian, the son of a Confederate veteran and scion of a family of slave owners, Waring was appointed to the federal bench in the early days of World War II.
Faced with a growing demand for equal rights from black South Carolinians, and a determined and savvy NAACP attorney named Thurgood Marshall, Waring did what he thought was right: He followed the law, and the United States Constitution. In fact, he helped guide Marshall down a narrow legal path that led to the end of segregation schools.
Brian Hicks talks with Walter Edgar about Waring’s plan, and about his life, in the new book, In Darkest South Carolina: J. Waties Waring and the Secret Plan that Sparked a Civil Rights Movement (2017, Post and Courier Books).
- Originally broadcast 01/25/19 -
All Stations: Fri, Dec 20, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Dec 22, 4 pm

Cassandra King Conroy on SCETV's "By The River" — My Life With Pat Conroy Oct 28, 2019
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(SCETV)
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 Southern literature.
Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced “Sunday wife” of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy. Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, partly because Pat hated the commute from coastal South Carolina to her native Alabama. It was a union that would last eighteen years, until the beloved literary icon’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016.
All Stations: Fri, Nov 01, 12 pm | News & Talk Stations: Sun, Nov 03, 4 pm

"Death of Major Ferguson at King's Mountain," Virtue & Yorston, 1863 — The Battle of Kings Mountain and the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution Sep 30, 2019
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(Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library)
(SCETV/Original SC)
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias during the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in a decisive victory for the Patriots. The battle took place on October 7, 1780, in what is now rural Cherokee County, SC. The Patriot victory was one of several key battles in Carolina that turned the tide of the war against Great Britain.
John Slaughter, Group Superintendent, Southern Campaign of the American Revolution Parks, joins Walter Edgar to talk about Kings Mountain and about the importance of the Southern Campaign to the success of the American Revolution.
All Stations: Fri, Oct 04, 12 pm | News & Talk Stations: Sun, Oct 06, 4 pm

John Slaughter, Superintendent of US Park Service's Southern Campaign of the American Revolution Parks group. — The Battle of Kings Mountain and the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution Sep 30, 2019
Show notes

(Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library)
(SCETV/Original SC)
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias during the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in a decisive victory for the Patriots. The battle took place on October 7, 1780, in what is now rural Cherokee County, SC. The Patriot victory was one of several key battles in Carolina that turned the tide of the war against Great Britain.
John Slaughter, Group Superintendent, Southern Campaign of the American Revolution Parks, joins Walter Edgar to talk about Kings Mountain and about the importance of the Southern Campaign to the success of the American Revolution.
All Stations: Fri, Oct 04, 12 pm | News & Talk Stations: Sun, Oct 06, 4 pm

Cokie Roberts — Remembering Cokie Roberts Sep 17, 2019
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(1997 ABC, Inc Steve Fenn)
Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts has died at age 75. Roberts joined NPR in 1978, the start of a remarkable career that led her to ABC News in 1988, though she remained on NPR as a commentator until her death. Roberts died Tuesday due to complications from breast cancer, according to a family statement.
Walter Edgar interviewed Roberts during a 2004 book tour promoting her book, Founding Mothers, when she made a stop at Litchfield Books.
Listen the the entire episode, below.

NOAA satellite infrared image of Hurrricane Hugo, 12:01 a.m., Sept. 22, 1989. — Remembering Hurricane Hugo Sep 09, 2019
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(NOAA)
Thirty years ago this month, the strongest and most costly hurricane to strike South Carolina in the 20^th century made landfall. Hurricane Hugo was a Category 4 storm when it came ashore just slightly north of Charleston, on Isle of Palms on September 22. The hurricane had 140 mph sustained winds, with gusts to more than 160 mph and brought a storm surge of over 20 feet to McClellanville, SC. Thirty-five people lost their lives to the storm and its aftermath in South Carolina. Damage from Hugo in South Carolina was estimated at $5.9 billion.
Walter Edgar talks with Bo Peterson of Charleston’s Post & Courier newspaper about the impact of Hugo. And, we’ll delve into the Journal’s archive for a past conversation with survivors of the storm surge in McClellanville.
All Stations: Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 12 pm | News & Talk Stations: Sun, Sep 15, 4 pm

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