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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.

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Cover detail from "The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera." — The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera Jun 08, 2015
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(University of Georgia Press)
(Originally broadcast 10/30/12) - In his book, The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera, Dr. Harvey H. Jackson III traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with "small fishing villages," through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.
Jackson focuses on the stretch of coast from Mobile Bay and Gulf Shores, Alabama, east to Panama City, Florida—an area known as the "Redneck Riviera." Jackson explores the rise of this area as a vacation destination for the lower South's middle- and working-class families following World War II, the building boom of the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of the Spring Break "season, and the severe hurricane destruction of the many small motels, cafes, bars, and early cottages that gave the small beach towns their essential character.
Jackson traces the tensions surrounding the gentrification of the late 1980s and 1990s and the collapse of the housing market in 2008. While his major focus is on the social, cultural, and economic development, he also documents the environmental and financial impacts of natural disasters and the politics of beach access and dune and sea turtle protection.

Walt and Mickey — America at the Movies: Greenville Chatauqua Jun 01, 2015
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(Greenville Chautauqua)
Greenville Chautauqua has been performing educational interactive historical theater continuously since 1999. The group's administrator, Caroline McIntyre is our guest, along with local historian Judy Bainbridge and presenter Leslie Goddard. They will talk about this year's program, America at the Movies. Presenters will portray Mary Pickford, Orson Welles, Gordon Parks, and Walt Disney.
The first Chautauqua, the New York State Assembly, was organized in 1874 by Methodist minister John Heyl Vincent and businessman Lewis Miller at a campsite on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in New York State as an outdoor adult education program for Sunday School teachers. In the outdoor setting on a lake resort the education program merged with family entertainment and recreation.

John Shelton Reed — Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s May 18, 2015
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---All Stations: Fri, May 22, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, May 24, 4 pm--- (Originally broadcast 01/10/14) - In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with low rent, a faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square became the center of a vibrant but short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling, an artist who taught at Tulane, were among the "artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter." In Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s (LSU Press, 2012) John Shelton Reed introduces Faulkner's circle of friends ranging from the distinguished Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer and brings to life the people and places of New Orleans in the jazz age.
Dr. John Shelton Reed is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was director of the Howard Odum Institute for Research in Social Science for twelve years and helped to found the university's Center for the Study of the American South and the quarterly Southern Cultures.

Home plate — On Walter Edgar's Journal: Hometown Teams May 08, 2015
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(iStock)
----All Stations: Fri, May 15, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, May 18, 4 pm----
Nowhere do Americans more intimately connect to sports than in their hometowns. Six South Carolina communities, in cooperation with The Humanities Council SC, will celebrate this connection as they host Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) program.
Hometown Teams will be on view through December 13, 2015 in South Carolina. Upcoming locations, in order, are Gaffney; Belton; Georgetown; Slater; and Manning. Each community has been expressly chosen by The Humanities Council SC to host Hometown Teams as part of the MoMS program, which is a unique national/state/local partnership that brings exhibitions and programs to rural cultural organizations.
Joining Dr. Edgar to talk about Hometown Teams are T. J. Wallace from the Humanities Council SC, Fritz Hamer from South Caroliniana Library, and Alison Darby from Belton Area Museum Association.

Dr. John Marzsalek — Conversations on the Civil War, 1865: Wm Tecumseh Sherman Apr 06, 2015
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(Mississippi State University)
--- All Stations: Fri, Apr 10, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Apr 12, 4 pm --- In his book, Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order (Free Press, 1992) John F. Marszalek presents general William Tecumseh Sherman as a complicated man who, fearing anarchy, searched for the order that he hoped would make his life a success.
Dr. Marszalek talks with Dr. Edgar about Sherman as a military commander who came to abhor what he saw as the senseless slaughter of the War, and who sought a different strategy to bring the South to surrender.

Dr. Heather Andrea Williams — Conversations on the Civil War, 1865: Emancipation & Freedom Mar 30, 2015
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(Steve Exum)
- All Stations: Fri, Apr 3, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Apr 5, 4 pm -
Dr. Heather Andrea Williams of Pennsylvania State University joins Dr. Walter Edgar for another "Conversation on the Civil War, 1865." The subject: emancipation and freedom. Williams is one of the world’s leading historians of the experience of slavery in the 19th century. Her award-winning first book, Self-Taught: African-American Education in Slavery and Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), argued that education was inseparable from the fight against slavery.

Middleton Place — The History and Future of Middleton Place Mar 23, 2015
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- All Stations: Fri, Mar 27, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Mar 29, 4 pm -
Charleston’s Middleton Place was established early in the life of the Carolina colony and served as a base of operations for a great Low Country planter family and was home to a dynamic African-American slave community. Charles Duell, President of the Middleton Place Foundation, and Tracey Todd, Vice President of Museums for the Foundation, talk with Dr. Edgar about the history and future of Middleton Place.

Dr. William J. Cooper, Jr. — Conversations on the Civil War, 1865: Jefferson Davis: American Mar 02, 2015
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(Louisiana State University)
The University of South Carolina’s College of Arts and Humanities and Institute for Southern Studies concludes its series Conversations on the Civil War with a look back to 1865, the end of the war, the beginning of freedom for thousands of slaves, and the period of Reconstruction in the South.
The second guest in this series of conversations, recorded before an audience at USC’s Capstone Conference Center, is Dr. William Cooper the Boyd Professor of History Emeritus at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era(2013, LSU Press) and Jefferson Davis, American (2000, Knopf) which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He talks with Dr. Edgar about Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy.
- All Stations: Fri, Mar 6, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Mar 8, 4 pm -

Civil War cannon — Conversations on the Civil War, 1865: the War in Fiction Feb 23, 2015
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(Note: this program was originally scheduled for 02/20/15)
The University of South Carolina’s College of Arts and Humanities and Institute for Southern Studies concludes its series Conversations on the Civil War with a look back to 1865, the end of the war, the beginning of freedom for thousands of slaves, and the period of Reconstruction in the South.
The first guest in this series of conversations, recorded before an audience at USC’s Capstone Conference Center, is Dr. Robert H. Brinkmeyer, a professor of English and Southern Studies at the university. He talks with Dr. Edgar about fictional representation of the Civil War.
- All Stations: Fri, Feb 27, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Mar 01, 4 pm -

James Lowell Underwood — Deadly Censorship - James Lowell Underwood Feb 19, 2015
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Please Note: Conversations on the Civil War with guest Robert Brinkmeyer has been resheduled for next week.
(Originally broadcast 05/30/14) - South Carolina’s Lt. Governor shoots to death the Editor of the state’s largest newspaper, in broad daylight, in downtown Columbia. Sounds like a plot point in a novel? Well, it actually happened, in the early 20^th century, and James Lowell Underwood tells the story in his book, Deadly Censorship: Murder, Honor, and Freedom of the Press (USC Press, 2013).
- All Station: Fri, Feb 20, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Feb 22, 4 pm -

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