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Murder, mischief, and malice in 1890s Spartanburg

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The Cherokee War of 1776: Native destruction at the dawn of American independence

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Once upon a time in space: The story of Ronald McNair

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Seeking out the vanishing flavors of traditional Southern foods

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Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life

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Empire of Ashes

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Backcountry resistance: South Carolina's militia and the fight for American independence

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Revolutionary voices

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The South Carolina BBQ Project

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Murder in the Lowcountry? Call the Mudflats Murder Club

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South Carolina from A-Z in Depth - The Scrabble episode!

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Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs

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Liberty is Sweet: The hidden history of the American Revolution

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Mary Whyte: An artist's life

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Exploring "South Carolina from A to Z" - In depth,  redux

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“South Carolina from A to Z” in depth

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The Father of American Opera: Carlisle Floyd at 100

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Victoria Benton Frank: Making a new path while walking with grief

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Gullah Culture in America

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The Ramos Gin Fizz: a history of the complex New Orleans cocktail that survived Prohibition

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25th Anniversary of Walter Edgar’s Journal

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Master of horror: Grady Hendrix

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Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the future of house museums

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Ken Burns: the American Revolution

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"E" is for Edgar

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Grant’s Enforcer: Taking down the Klan

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Native nations in colonial South Carolina

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25 years of Walter Edgar’s Journal

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Witness to change: George Anson and colonial Charleston

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Beyond the western wall: Henry Tisdale and the transformation of Claflin University

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SC A-Z - Back stories

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The South never plays itself: The South on screen

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The Francis Marion papers: The legend, tactics and life of the Swamp Fox

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Mother Emanuel: Two centuries of race, resistance, and forgiveness

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The Zombie Memes of Dixie

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Exploring "South Carolina from A to Z" - Ep. 2

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On the trail: Johnny D. Boggs' journey from the swamps of the Pee Dee to the Old West

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Exploring "South Carolina from A to Z"

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The cost of the vote: George Elmore and the battle for the ballot

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Backcountry war: The rise of Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, and Thomas Sumter in the American Revolution

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"Somewhere toward freedom" - Sherman's March and the story of America's largest Emancipation

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North of Main: Spartanburg's historic Black neighborhoods

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Settler violence, native resistance, and the coalescence of the Old South

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Remembering Nathalie Dupree

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Raptors in the ricelands

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Charleston's Nathaniel Russell House: Kitchen house archaeology sheds new light on the life of the enslaved

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Marjory Wentworth: One River, One Boat

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Romancing the Gullah in the age of Porgy and Bess

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Lincoln's unfinished work: The new birth of freedom from generation to generation

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Southern/Modern: Modernism in Southern art from the first half of the twentieth century

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Reconstruction beyond 150

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A short history of Greenville

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The miraculous art of jazz

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Joy is the justice we give ourselves

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Walter Edgar's Journal: 'This fierce people' - the untold story of America's Revolutionary War in the South

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Lowcountry at High Tide

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Walter Edgar's Journal: How Jewish entrepreneurs built economy and community in Upcountry South Carolina

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Walter Edgar's Journal: Payne-ful Business - Charleston’s Journey to Truth

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Walter Edgar's Journal: The story of the Mighty Moo, the USS Cowpens

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Walter Edgar's Journal: Sleeping with the ancestors - The Slave Dwelling Project

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Walter Edgar's Journal: The story of Fort Sumter

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Walter Edgar's Journal: Finding the 1768 Charleston lighthouse in the fog of history

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The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina family, from slavery to the dawn of integration

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Walter Edgar's Journal: Tea and the American Revolution, 1773–1776

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Walter Edgar's Journal: Injustice in focus - The Civil Rights photography of Cecil Williams

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Walter Edgar's Journal: La Florida - Catholics, Conquistadores, and Other American Origin Stories

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Walter Edgar's Journal: George Singleton - Asides: Occasional Essays

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Walter Edgar’s Journal: Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim - 275 years as a community of faith

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Methodists & moonshiners: Another Prohibition expedition through the South

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“Our Country First, Then Greenville" - A New South City during the Progressive Era and World War I

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Charleston Horse Power: Equine Culture in the Palmetto City

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Walter Edgar's Journal: Kugels & Collards - Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina

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The International African American Museum: Honoring the untold stories of the African American journey

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'Captured Freedom': A compelling photo tells a harrowing story of survival

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Mark Catesby: Nature's Messenger

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Walter Edgar's Journal: The Spingarn brothers - White privilege, Jewish heritage, and the struggle for racial equality

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Gullah culture in America

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Journalist Adam Parker’s look at the culture, conflict, and creativity of the South

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Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South

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Film critic Ben Beard continues his journey through the South on screen

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Charleston to Phnom Penh - A Cook's Journal

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Walter Edgar’s Journal: Legend - Francis Marion in the Pee Dee

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Walter Edgar’s Journal: A photographic history of the Civil Rights era

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Walter Edgar's Journal: Revolutionary roads

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An innovative strategy revives the economy of a small town and helps create a major industry

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Where have all the shrimp boats gone?

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Walter Edgar's Journal, past and future

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Carolina's lost colony: Stuarts Town and the struggle for survival in early South Carolina

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Clemson professor Drew Lanham: the "genius" in his MacArthur Foundation grant is freedom to "do me"

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C. Vann Woodward: America's historian

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Citadel professor redefines key battle that changed the course of the Hundred Years War

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The South Never Plays Itself - a history of the Deep South on screen

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Revolutionary revelations: remains of soldiers from the Battle of Camden to be re-interred with honors

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Saving a legacy, one fish fry at a time

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The Liberty Trail: The trail to independence

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Drayton Hall stories: A place and its people

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History and horticulture at Historic Columbia's Hampton-Preston Mansion site

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'Black Snow': SC author chronicles desperate measures taken to end WWII fighting in the Pacific

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War stuff: the struggle between armies and civilians during the American Civil War

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Origins of "The Wheel of Time"