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South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from The S.C. Historical Association

South Carolina, Columbia, view from the State Capitol.
George N. Barnard, U.S. War Department/National Archives
South Carolina, Columbia, view from the State Capitol.

(Originally broadcast 03/24/17) - South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras(USC Press, 2016) is an anthology of the most enduring and important scholarly articles about the Civil War and Reconstruction era published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association. Past officers of the South Carolina Historical Association (SCHA) Michael Brem Bonner and Fritz Hamer have selected twenty-three essays from the several hundred published since 1931 to create this treasure trove of scholarship on an impressive variety of subjects including race, politics, military events, and social issues. Editors Hamer and  Bonner join Dr. Edgar to talk about the book and the wide-lens view it offers.

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Dr. 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.