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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

Latest Episodes:

A ballot box from Sumter County used in the 1876 election joined the tissue ballot and Red Shirt in 2024 on display in the bedroom devoted to domestic violence and election fraud. — Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the future of house museums Nov 21, 2025
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A ballot box from Sumter County used in the 1876 election joined the tissue ballot and Red Shirt in 2024 on display in the bedroom devoted to domestic violence and election fraud.(Courtesy of Historic Columbia)
This week we'll be talking with Dr. Jennifer Whitmer Taylor of Duquesne University about her book, Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the Future of the House Museum (2025, University of SC Press).
In Rebirth, Taylor provides a compelling account of how to reenvision the historic house museum. Using the Museum of the Reconstruction Era—known as the Woodrow Wilson Family Home for most of its many years as a house museum—as a case study, Taylor explores the challenges and possibilities that face public history practitioners and museum professionals who provide complex interpretations of contested public memory. Anchored by oral history interviews with docents who interact directly with the visiting public, Rebirth considers how a dated and seemingly outmoded venue for interpretation, the historic house museum, can be reimagined for twenty-first-century audiences.

Ken Burns: the American Revolution Nov 07, 2025
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(PBS)
This week Walter will be talking with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about the American Revolution, focusing on the routing of the British and their allies by revolutionary Partisans during Cornwallis’ Southern campaign.
Ken will also tell us a bit about his upcoming PBS documentary, The American Revolution. The six-part, 12-hour documentary series explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence.
This much-anticipated series will premiere on Sunday, November 16, and will air for six consecutive nights, from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. on PBS and SCETV. The full series will be available to stream beginning Sunday, November 16 at PBS.org and on the PBS App.

Walter Edgar — "E" is for Edgar Oct 17, 2025
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Walter Edgar(SCETV)
Today we’ll be switching things up a bit. Instead of Walter and me interviewing a guest we will have a guest interviewing Walter.
The conversation is part of the Spring 2025 program put on by the University South Caroliniana Society: “E is for Edgar – Conversation and Barbeque with Walter.” Talking with Walter today is Beryl Dakers, president of the Society and long-time producer with SCETV.
Today's episode is part of our celebration of Walter Edgar's Journal's 25th year.

Native Nations book cover — Native Nations in colonial South Carolina Sep 19, 2025
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(Courtesy of the author)
This week we’ll be talking with Dr. Kathleen DuVal about native Americans in Colonial South Carolina.
Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as Kathleen will tell us, North American civilization did not come to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well-armed.
Much of our discussion today is based on Kathleen DuVal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.

Walter Edgar and Alfred Turner — 25 years of Walter Edgar’s Journal Sep 05, 2025
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Walter Edgar and Alfred Turner( SCETV)
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.

George Anson — Witness to change: George Anson and colonial Charleston Aug 15, 2025
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George Anson (1697–1762), 1st Baron Anson, Admiral of the Fleet(Attributed to Thomas Hudson / Royal Museums Greenwich)
This week we’ll be talking with Nic Butler, the historian at the Charleston County Public Library. He has been digging into archives both here and in Britain, researching the life of George Anson.
Anson, was an officer in the British Navy who, by the time of his death in 1762, had risen to its highest rank, First Lord of the Admiralty. He had also spent 9 years in South Carolina during its time of transition from a colony governed by the Lords Proprietors to a colony of the British Crown.
That change wasn’t instant and some of the history the colony's governance during the transition - as well as that of day-to-day life – are sometimes unclear. However, in researching George Anson, Nic Butler has both found a valuable through-line to this history and shone a light on Anson’s own fascinating story.

Henry Tisdale with students on the campus of Claflin University — Beyond the western wall: Henry Tisdale and the transformation of Claflin University Aug 01, 2025
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Henry Tisdale with students on the campus of Claflin University(Courtesy of Claflin University)
This week we’ll be talking with Dr. Henry N. Tisdale, former president of Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. This Kingstree native has had a long and distinguished academic career, earning his undergraduate degree at Claflin in 1965 and, eventually, becoming the first African American to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Dartmouth. His career path led him into college administration, and he became Claflin University’s president in 1994.
Claflin, like many historically black colleges and universities at the time, was struggling – facing declining enrollment and possible loss of accreditation. Henry Tisdale established the goal that Claflin would “enter the 21st century with an eye to become a premier liberal arts institution.” Thanks in large part to his leadership, Claflin was named the number one HBCU by Forbes magazine and was ranked in the top 4% of U.S. colleges and universities.
Tisdale tells the story of Claflin’s renaissance in his book, Beyond the Western Wall: Audacious Transformation of a Small Liberal Arts College (2025, Cecil Williams Photography/Publishing).

Map of the Missouri Compromise — SC A-Z - Back stories Jul 18, 2025
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(This week we are going to be exploring South Carolina from A to Z. That’s the title of our sister podcast from which we will select topics that deserve a longer look that just 60 seconds.<br/><br/>This time out we'll discuss the ambitious man whose name adorns a Christmas decoration; the aristocratic Royal Governor who just didn't "get" South Carolina; the once powerful leadership body in the colony that lost it's standing almost overnight; and the young, talented South Carolina legislature who had a real impact on our young republic as well as our state.<br/><br/>)
This week we are going to be exploring South Carolina from A to Z. That’s the title of our sister podcast from which we will select topics that deserve a longer look that just 60 seconds.
This time out we'll discuss the ambitious man whose name adorns a Christmas decoration; the aristocratic Royal Governor who just didn't "get" South Carolina; the once powerful leadership body in the colony that lost it's standing almost overnight; and the young, talented South Carolina legislature who had a real impact on our young republic as well as our state.

Ben Beard — The South never plays itself: The South on screen Jul 04, 2025
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Ben Beard(Courtesy of the author)
This time out we are bringing you an encore from our broadcast archive featuring a conversation with Ben Beard, author of The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen (2020, UGA Press).
Beard’s idiosyncratic narrative—part cultural history, part film criticism, part memoir—journeys through genres and eras, issues and regions, smash blockbusters and microbudget indies to explore America’s past and troubled present, seen through Hollywood’s distorting lens.
In The South Never Plays Itself, Ben attempts to answer the question: what do movies know about the South that we don’t?

General Francis Marion offering to share his meal of sweet potatoes and water with a British officer. — The Francis Marion papers: The legend, tactics and life of the Swamp Fox Jun 20, 2025
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General Francis Marion offering to share his meal of sweet potatoes and water with a British officer.(Currier & Ives / Library of Congress)
After two decades of research and investigation, the South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust, in collaboration with the South Carolina American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission (SC250), has unveiled the first volume of the Francis Marion Papers, a project that holds the potential to reshape our understanding of one of the American Revolution’s most heroic figures.
The papers, consisting of more than 600 historical documents, include letters written both to and from General Francis Marion, famously known as the Swamp Fox for his elusive guerrilla warfare tactics against British forces. These materials, discovered in archives across the country have been carefully compiled and annotated by leading historians. The first volume, complete with illustrations and battle maps, was released on February 27 – the anniversary of Marion’s death.
For this episode we sat down with Molly Fortune, CEO of SC250); co-editor Ben Rubin, and co-editor Rick Wise, Director of the SC Battlefield Preservation Trust, to talk about the work behind the publication of the papers and about Marion and his compatriots in the Revoultionary War.

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