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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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Hobcaw Barony: Between the Waters Oct 05, 2016

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Hobcaw Barony is a 16,000 acre tract on the Waccamaw Neck, between the Winyah Bay and the Atlantic Ocean in Georgetown County, SC. Once owned by the investor, philanthropist, presidential advisor, and South Carolina native Bernard M. Baruch, the property was used as a hunting preserve between 1905 and 1907. It is now owned and operated by the non-profit Belle W. Baruch Foundation as a site for research in the environmental sciences. In addition, over 70 cultural sites on the plantation including cemeteries, slave cabins, and the Baruch’s homes all provide a time capsule for educators.

The Foundation’s Executive Director, George Chastain, and its Senior Interpreter, Lee G. Brockington, join Dr. Edgar for a conversation about the ecological, historical, and cultural riches of Hobcaw Barony.

Related Link: Between the Waters inactive web documentary

All Stations: Fri, Oct 7, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Oct 9, 4 pm

Dr. Charles Joyner — Becoming Southern Writers: Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner Sep 19, 2016
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(Courtesy of Coastal Carolina University)
Becoming Southern Writers: Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner (2016, USC Press) is a collection of essays that pay tribute to the late South Carolinian Charles Joyner’s more than fifty years as a writer of Southern history, folklore, music and literature. (Dr. Joyner died on Tuesday, September 13, 2016.) The contributors, exceptional writers of fact, fiction, and poetry, describe their experiences of living in and writing about the South.
The editors, Dr. Orville Vernon Burton and Dr. Eldred “Wink” Prince, talk with Dr. Edgar about the writers, their contributions, and about the life and work of the man who inspired them all, Dr. Charles Joyner.
All Stations: Fri, Sep 23, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Sep 25, 4 pm

Molly Pitcher firing cannon at Battle of Monmouth — Revolutionary Mothers: Women and the Struggle for American Independence Sep 12, 2016
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(E. Percy Moran/Library of Congress)
In her book, Revolutionary Mothers: Women and the Struggle for American Independence (2015, Knopf) Dr. Carol Berkin makes the argument that the American Revolution is a story of both women and men. Women played an active and vital role in the war; although history books have often greatly minimized or completely left out the contributions of women in the creation of our nation, or greatly romanticized their role.
Dr. Berkin talks with Dr. Edgar about the role of Colonial white women, Native Americans, and African-Americans in war.
Broadcast Sept 17, 2016

Detail from "The Reserve in Summer." (Alice Ravenel Huger Smith) — Sharing the Legacy of Alice Ravenel Huger Smith Sep 05, 2016
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(Gibbes Museum)
The Middleton Place Foundation is helping to share the artistic legacy of Charleston Renaissance artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith with exhibits at the Middleton Place House Museum and the Edmondston-Alston House, a Smith exhibit from October 23, 2016, to June 17, 2017.
Charleston’s Middleton Place was established early in the life of the Carolina colony as a base of operations for a Low Country planter family; it also contained a dynamic, African-American, slave community. When Charles Duell, a direct Middleton descendant, inherited Middleton Place, he realized that the history of the site needed to be preserved, interpreted, and shared. Duell helped to found the Middleton Place Foundation forty years ago, and he joins Dr. Edgar this week along with board member Ann Gaud Tinker to talk about the ongoing mission of the site, as well as the upcoming Smith exhibition.
All Stations: Fri, Sep 10, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Sep 12, 4 pm

Dr. William J. Cooper, Jr. — Jefferson Davis: American Aug 01, 2016
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(Louisiana State University)
(Originally broadcast 02/07/15) -In an encore from the 2015 series, Conversations on the Civil War, sponsored by the University of South Carolina’s College of Arts and Humanities, William Cooper talks with Walter Edgar about the life of Jefferson Davis, an American soldier and politician who became president of the Confederate States of America.
Dr. William J. Cooper, Jr., is the Boyd professor of history at Louisiana State University, and the author of Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era (2013, LSU Press) and Jefferson Davis, American (2000, Knopf) winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
All Stations: Fri, Aug 05, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Aug 07, 4 pm

Dr. Mark M. Smith — Gettysburg Jun 27, 2016
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(University of South Carolina)
(Originally broadcast 07/05/13) - Dr. Mark Smith, Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, takes part in this discussion of the battle of Gettysburg, which marked the beginning of the end of the Confederate States’ rebellion in the American Civil War. Smith is widely considered America's leading practitioner of the new and burgeoning field of "sensory history." This encore presentation is from a series of “Conversations on the Civil War, 1863,” which took place at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, in the spring of 2013, and was sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences.
All Stations: Fri, Jul 01, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Jul 03, 4 pm

Betsy Fleming — Outgoing Converse College President is Proud of Her School’s Growth, Record Enrollment Jun 20, 2016
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(Courtesy Converse College)
Betsy Fleming, outgoing president of Converse College in Spartanburg, talks with Walter Edgar about her 11 years leading the 125-year-old institution dedicated to offering women a high quality, liberal arts education. Fleming became President of Converse in October 2005. After reducing the tuition by 43 percent, the school became a national leader in affordability and value. Fleming has said that the tuition reset was an important marker in transforming the college's future.
An Aspen Institute Liberty Fellow, Fleming currently serves on the Council of Presidents for the Association of Governing Boards (AGB), the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) Steering Committee in the Future of Higher Education, and on the Board of Directors for both Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Charlotte Branch and Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina.
All Stations: Fri, Jun 24, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Jun 26, 4 pm

Colonial style window — Striving to Make Charleston Lowcountry a World Heritage Site Jun 06, 2016
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(iStock photo © Massimo Fanelli)
The Charleston World Heritage Commission's mission is to nominate iconic buildings and landscapes representative of the Charleston Lowcountry, plantation-driven culture as a UNESCO World Heritage Site – the highest cultural and historic designation bestowed on a place or site.
The UNESCO World Heritage List is comprised of 1031 natural and cultural sites that are deemed important to all mankind and was developed by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to encourage international peace and cooperation, as well as help preserve sites of world significance.
Brittany Tulla, Executive Director of the CWHC, and board member Tom Tisdale talk with Walter Edgar about why the Commission believes Charleston’s history is worthy of global recognition.
Classical Stations: Fri, Jun 10, 1 pm | News Stations: Fri, Jun 10, 12 pm; Sun, Jun 12, 4 pm

Brian Hicks — The Mayor: Joe Riley and the Rise of Charleston May 30, 2016
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In his 40 years as Mayor of Charleston, Joe Riley has led the historic port city through its greatest period of growth, economic development and unity. His authorized biography, The Mayor: Joe Riley and the Rise of Charleston (Evening Post Publishing Company, 2015), is the inside story of his life and how he built -- and forever transformed -- one of the nation's oldest cities.
Brian Hicks is a metro columnist for The Post and Courier and the author or coauthor of seven previous books. A native of Cleveland, Tennessee, Hicks lives in Charleston.
This week at a special time on our Classical Stations: Fri, Jun 03, 1 pm | News Stations: Fri, Jun 03, 12 pm; Sun, Jun 05, 498

“Join or Die,” by Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA), May 9, 1754. — Carolina in Crisis: the Frontier, 1756 - 1763 May 16, 2016
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(Library of Congress)
(Originally broadcast 02/19/16) - In his book, Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756 - 1763, (2015, UNC Press) Dr. Daniel J. Tortora, assistant professor of history at Colby College, explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora joins Walter Edgar for a discussion of these events in one of a a series of public conversations, “Conversations on Colonial and Revolutionary South Carolina,” presented earlier this year by the University of South Carolina’s College of Arts and Sciences.
In their discussion, Dr. Tortora argues that the political and military success of the Cherokees led colonists to a greater fear of slave resistance and revolt and ultimately nurtured South Carolinians' rising interest in the movement for independence.
All Stations: Fri, May 20, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, May 22, 4 pm

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