Walter Edgar's Journal

  --- All Stations: Fri, Jul 17, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Jul 19, 4 pm --- (Originally broadcast 01/16/15) ---  Bestselling author Ron Rash returns to Walter Edgar’s Journal to talk about his life and work. He’ll also tell Dr. Edgar about  The Ron Rash Reader   (USC Press, 2014), the 20th anniversary edition of  The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth  (USC Press, 2014) as well as his collection...

(Linda O'Bryon) --- All stations: Fri, Jul 10, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Jul 12, 4 pm ---   The shooting deaths of nine members of Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church in June shocked the nation. However, the history of “Mother Emanuel,” and, indeed, the black church in South Carolina, is one of repression and resistance, spiritual succor and political action, as well as education and aspiration....

(Facebook) ---All stations: Fri, Jul 3, 12 pm | News stations: Sun, Jul 5, 4 pm---  (Originally broadcast 06/29/07) - -- For 24 years, Dan Huntley was a reporter/columnist for The Charlotte Observer. As a recipient of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, he had the opportunity to travel and cook in Buenos Aires, Istanbul, and the Greek Peloponnese. He soon realized that the...

(Courtesy National Park Service)   There's a long history to the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., — affectionately known as "Mother Emanuel" — where nine churchgoers were allegedly shot and killed by 21-year-old Dylann Roof on Wednesday night. Part of that history involves Denmark Vesey, a West Indian slave, and later a freedman, who planned what would have been one...

(University of North Carolina Press)   --- All Stations: Fri, Jun 19, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Jun 21, 4 pm --- This week on Walter Edgar's Journal,  Dr. William Ferris, renowned folklorist and historian, tells the stories and history of  The Storied South - Voices of Writers and Artists (UNC Press, 2013). The Storied South features the voices of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thin...

(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 spil...

(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,...

---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 Sprat...

(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 Stree...

(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 Sherma...

(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-Taugh...

- 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...

(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 audi...

  (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 conver...

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 tell...

- All Stations: Fri, Feb 13, 12:00 pm | News Stations: Sun, Feb 15, 4:00 pm - Walter Edgar’s Journal   listeners have a front row seat for a public “Conversation about the South,” held in March of 2014 by the American History Book Club and Forum at the Upcountry History Museum – Furman University, in Greenville, SC. Long-time friends and colleagues, Professor James Cobb, who holds the B. Phinizy S...

(Courtesy of Good Catch)   Bryan Tayara and Dr. John Mark Dean share a passion for sustainable, locally caught seafood. Tayara is owner of  Our Local Catch , and Dr. Dean is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Science and Ocean Policy with the  University of South Carolina's Marine Science Program . They talk with Dr. Edgar about the state of South Carolina’s crabbers, fishermen, shrimpers, and...

(University of South Carolina) Dr. Mark M. Smith, of the University of South Carolina, returns to The Journal to talk about his book The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2014). No other book has looked at the Civil War through the prism of the five senses, or considered their impact on various groups of indviduals. Smith is widely co...

Bestselling author Ron Rash returns to Walter Edgar’s Journal to talk about his life and work. He’ll also tell Dr. Edgar about The Ron Rash Reader (USC Press, 2014), the 20th anniversary edition of The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth (USC Press, 2014) as well as his collection entitled Something Rich and Strange (Harper Collins, 2014).  And he’ll talk about co-writing the screenplay for the upco...

(Washington Times)   With the passing of former South Carolina Governor James B. Edwards, on December 26, 2014, Walter Edgar's Journal offers an encore of a conversation between Dr. Edgar and the Governor, which first aired in October of 2004. Edwards was the first Republican Governor elected since Reconstruction.  Walter talks with him about his time in office…both on the state and federal levels...

-Walter Edgar's Journal-    Greenville's downtown is widely recognized as one of the best in America. In Reimagining Greenville: Building the Best Downtown in America (The History Press, 2013), authors John Boyanoski and Mayor Knox White tell the story of the careful, deliberate efforts by city and community leaders who banded together to build something special from a decaying city center. Mayor...

  Novelist Sharyn McCrumb talks with Dr. Edgar about her new book  Nora Bonesteel’s Christmas Past  (2014, Abingdon Press) When someone buys the old Honeycutt house, Nora Bonesteel is glad to see some life brought back to the old mansion, even if it is by summer people. But when the new owners decide to stay in their summer home through Christmas, they find more than old memories in the walls.  No...

  A product of the industrialized New South,  Eugene Healan Thomason  (1895–1972) made the obligatory pilgrimage to New York to advance his art education and launch his career. Like so many other aspiring American artists, he understood that the city offered unparalleled personal and professional opportunities for a promising young painter in the early 1920s. Thomason returned to the South in the...

  In 1954, the U. S. Supreme Court made it's landmark ruling to end segregation in public schools in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. Fifty years on, Dr. Jon N. Hale, of the College of Charleston, and Dr. Millicent E. Brown, of Claflin University, join Dr. Edgar to talk about the road to school desegregation and civil rights in South Carolina. - All Stations: Friday, Nov 28, 12 pm | News s...

Rep. James Clyburn drops by to talk with Walter Edgar about his life and career, and about writing his autobiography,  Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black.   - All Stations: Fri, Nov 21, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Nov 23, 4 pm -