Walter Edgar's Journal
Hosted by Walter Edgar · South Carolina Public Radio
4.8from 208 ratings
- 323
- Episodes
- 55
- Transcribed
- 208
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2006
- First episode
About 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.
- Publisher
- South Carolina Public Radio
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Mar 2006
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
55 of 323 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Cherokee War of 1776: Native destruction at the dawn of American independence
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Once upon a time in space: The story of Ronald McNair
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Seeking out the vanishing flavors of traditional Southern foods
Inside a recent episode
The Cherokee War of 1776: Native destruction at the dawn of American independence
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's, it's minimizing, it's devaluing this really sort of terrible tradition of settler encroachment that's happening. And it's, It's stripping Cherokees, not the Cherokees made the right decision, not the Cherokees made the smart geopolitical decision, but they made a decision. It was not the British decision. It was their decision. And they made the decision because all other of their. The options were gone. They had tried this. They had tried that. They had tried diplomacy. They had tried complaining. Nothing was fixing the fact that they were losing land. They were losing land to settlers. […]
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- Kevin Kokomoor
- Carl McNair
- Kevin Mitchell
- David Shields
- Albert Louis Zambone
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 182 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100
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- Quality
- 83
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 95
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