Walter Edgar
HostDr. Walter Edgar has two programs on South Carolina Public Radio:Walter Edgar's Journal, and South Carolina from A to Z. Dr. Edgar received his B.A. degree from Davidson College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1969. After two years in the army (including a tour of duty in Vietnam), he returned to USC as a post-doctoral fellow of the National Archives, assigned to the Papers of Henry Laurens.
In 1972 he joined the faculty of the History Department and in 1980 was named director of the Institute for Southern Studies. Dr. Edgar is the Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies and the George Washington Distinguished Professor of History. He retired from USC in 2012.
He has written or edited numerous books about South Carolina and the American South, including South Carolina: A History, the first new history of the state in more than 60 years. With more than 37,000 copies in print and an audio edition, it has been a publishing phenomenon. Partisans & Redcoats: The Southern Conflict that Turned the Tide of the American Revolution is in its fourth printing. He is also the editor of the South Carolina Encyclopedia.
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“H” is for Hillsborough Township. Located on the upper Savannah River in present-day McCormick County, Hillsborough Township was named for Wills Hill, viscount of Hillsborough and president of the British Board of Trade.
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“H” is for Hill, Daniel Harvey (1821-1889). Soldier. A native of York District, Hill graduated from West Point and served in a series of important battles in the Mexican War.
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“H” is for Hill, Daniel Harvey (1821-1889). Soldier. A native of York District, Hill graduated from West Point and served in a series of important battles in the Mexican War.
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“G” is for Grayson, William John (1788-1863). Politician, planter, poet, essayist.
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“G” is for Grayson, William John (1788-1863). Politician, planter, poet, essayist.
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“F” is for Fuller, William Edward (1875-1958). Clergyman. Fuller became the new Colored Fire-Baptized Holiness Church's general overseer and its first bishop—a position he held until his death.
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“F” is for Fuller, William Edward (1875-1958). Clergyman. Fuller became the new Colored Fire-Baptized Holiness Church's general overseer and its first bishop—a position he held until his death.
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“E” is for Everett, Percival (b. 1956). Author, editor, educator.
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“E” is for Everett, Percival (b. 1956). Author, editor, educator.
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"D” is for Dorchester. In 1697 Congregationalists from Massachusetts settled on the north bank of the Ashley River and founded Dorchester as a market village twenty miles northwest of Charleston.