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Historian and author Walter Edgar mines the riches of the South Carolina Encyclopedia to bring you South Carolina from A to Z. Produced by South Carolina Public Radio.

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    “C” is for Cofitachiqui

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 0:59


    “C” is for Cofitachiqui. Cofitachiqui is the name of a sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Native American chiefdom as well as one of the principal towns of that chiefdom.

    “B” is for Boyce, James Pettigru (1827-1888)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 0:59


    “B” is for Boyce, James Pettigru (1827-1888). Minister, educator.

    Grant's Enforcer: Taking down the Klan

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 34:31


    In his book Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan Guy Gugliota offers a gripping story of the early years after the Civil War and the campaign led by President Ulysses S. Grant's attorney general Amos T. Akerman to destroy the Ku Klux Klan. Akerman, a former Georgia slaveholder and the only Southerner to serve in a Reconstruction cabinet, was the first federal lawman to propose using the Fourteenth Amendment to prosecute civil rights violations.Gugliotta uses newspapers, documents, and first-person stories, including thousands of pages of testimony under oath taken by a Congressional joint committee tasked in 1871 to study the Ku Klux Klan, a breathtaking compilation of accounts by Ku Klux targets, their attackers, local and national politicians, public officials and private citizens. The result is a vivid portrait of the Reconstruction South through the career of this surprising man.Guy joins us in conversation this week to talk about how Grant and Akerman took down the Klan.

    “W “is for Woodmason, Charles (ca.1720?)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 0:59


    “W “is for Woodmason, Charles (ca.1720?). Clergyman.

    “W “is for Woodmason, Charles (ca.1720?)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 0:59


    “W “is for Woodmason, Charles (ca.1720?). Clergyman.

    “S” is for Smalls, Robert (1839-1915

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2025 0:59


    “S” is for Smalls, Robert (1839-1915.) Legislator, congressman.

    “R” is for Russell's Magazine (1857-1860)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 0:59


    “R” is for Russell's Magazine (1857-1860). Russell's Magazine was the last of the southern antebellum literary magazines and arguably the best.

    “P” is for Poppenheim, Mary Barnett (1866-1936) and Louisa Bouknight Poppenheim (1868-1957)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 0:59


    “P” is for Poppenheim, Mary Barnett (1866-1936) and Louisa Bouknight Poppenheim (1868-1957). Club women, social reformers.

    “P “is for Pope, Thomas Harrington, Jr. (1913-1999)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 0:59


    “P “is for Pope, Thomas Harrington, Jr. (1913-1999). Attorney, legislator, historian.

    “N” is for Nullification

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 0:59


    “N” is for Nullification. The passage of the federal tariff law of 1828 signaled the rise of the nullification controversy in South Carolina. Led by John C. Calhoun a majority of South Carolinians eventually came to assert that a state had the right to nullify or veto federal laws and secede from the union.

    “N” is for Nuclear power

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 0:59


    “N” is for Nuclear power. The first time nuclear power was used to generate electricity in South Carolina was a small 17 megawatt experimental prototype by South Carolina Electric and Gas (and partners) at Parr from 1963 to 1967.

    “C” is for Coastal plain

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 0:59


    “C” is for Coastal plain. The coastal plain is South Carolina's largest landform region, forming two-thirds of the state and encompassing approximately 20,000 square miles.

    “M” is for Morgané, Mary Elizabeth (1815-1903)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2025 0:59


    “M” is for Morgané, Mary Elizabeth (1815-1903). Author, diarist.

    “L” is for Ludwell, Phillip (1638-1723)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 0:59


    “L” is for Ludwell, Phillip (1638-1723). Governor.

    “H” is for Humphreys, Josephine (b.1945)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2025 0:59


    “H” is for Humphreys, Josephine (b.1945). Novelist.

    “G” is for Gressette, Lawrence Marion (1902-1984)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 0:59


    “G” is for Gressette, Lawrence Marion (1902-1984). Legislator.

    “D” is for Dutch Fork

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2025 0:59


    “D” is for Dutch Fork. The Dutch Fork lies in a fork between the Broad and Saluda Rivers that includes parts of the modern counties of Newberry, Lexington, and Richland.

    “C” is for Cockfighting

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2025 0:59


    “C” is for Cockfighting. Cockfighting is a blood sport that has existed in South Carolina from colonial times into the twenty-first century, despite the fact that it was banned by the General Assembly in 1887.

    “C” is for Coastal Carolina University

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2025 0:59


    “C” is for Coastal Carolina University. Located in Horry County between Conway and Myrtle Beach, Coastal Carolina University is a public comprehensive liberal arts institution with more than 11,000 students.

    Clyburn, James Enos (b.1940)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2025 0:59


    “C” is for Clyburn, James Enos (b.1940). Congressman. In 2024 James Enos Clyburn won election to Congress for a seventeenth term.

    Boudo, Louis (ca. 1786-1827)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2025 0:59


    “B” is for Boudo, Louis (ca. 1786-1827), and Heloise Boudo (d. 1837). Silversmiths, goldsmiths, jewelers.

    “B” is for Bouchillon, Christopher Allen (1893-1968)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2025 0:59


    “B” is for Bouchillon, Christopher Allen (1893-1968). Although largely forgotten today, Christopher Allen Bouchillon probably ranks as South Carolina's most notable country music personality.

    “B” is for Bosc, Louis Augustin Guillaume (1759-1828)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2025 0:59


    “B” is for Bosc, Louis Augustin Guillaume (1759-1828). Naturalist.

    “B” is for Boonesborough Township

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2025 0:59


    “B” is for Boonesborough Township. Boonesborough was one in the second wave of townships that South Carolina laid out during the mid-eighteenth century to defend her frontier from the Cherokee.

    “W “is for Women's suffrage

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2025 0:59


    “W “is for Women's suffrage. The earliest suffrage clubs in the state were not organized until the 1890s but suffragists were beginning to receive notice.

    “S” is for slave trade

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2025 0:59


    “S” is for Slave trade. The Atlantic slave trade was one of the most important demographic, social, and economic events of the modern era.

    “S” is for slave religion

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2025 0:59


    “S” is for slave religion. Enslaved Africans arriving in South Carolina brought their traditional belief systems with them and until the early nineteenth century Christianity only marginally affected them and their descendants.

    “S” is for slave patrols

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2025 0:59


    “S” is for slave patrols. Slave patrols were a crucial mechanism of slave control in the colonial and antebellum periods of South Carolina history.

    “R” is for Russell, Donald Stewart (1906-1998)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2025 0:59


    “R” is for Russell, Donald Stewart (1906-1998). University president, governor, U.S. senator, jurist.

    “P” is for Pompion Hill Chapel (Berkeley County)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2025 0:59


    “P” is for Pompion Hill Chapel (Berkeley County). Built in 1763, Pompion Hill Chapel is among the finest remaining examples of the Anglican parish churches of the lowcountry.

    “P” is for Pomaria Nursery

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2025 0:59


    “P” is for Pomaria Nursery. Established in Newberry District in 1840 by William Summer, Pomaria Nursery was one of the most influential and prestigious nurseries of the antebellum South.

    “M” is for Moore, Samuel Preston (1813-1889)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2025 0:59


    “M” is for Moore, Samuel Preston (1813-1889). Surgeon general of the Confederacy.

    “M” is for Moore, James, Sr. (ca.1650-1706

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2025 0:59


    “M” is for Moore, James, Sr. (ca.1650-1706. Governor.

    “M” is for Moore, James, Jr. (ca.1682-1774)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2025 0:59


    “M” is for Moore, James, Jr. (ca.1682-1774). Governor.

    “L “is for Ludvigson, Susan (b.1942)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2025 0:59


    “L “is for Ludvigson, Susan (b.1942). Poet.

    “H” is for Hume, Sophia Wigington (ca. 1702-1774)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2025 0:59


    “H” is for Hume, Sophia Wigington (ca. 1702-1774). Minister, writer.

    D” is for Durban, Pam Rosa (b. 1947)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2025 0:59


    “D” is for Durban, Pam Rosa (b. 1947). Author. A native of Aiken, Durban attended the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

    “D” is for Dorn, William Jennings Bryan (1906-2005)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2025 0:59


    “D” is for Dorn, William Jennings Bryan (1906-2005). Congressman.

    “G” is for Green, Jonathan (b. 1955)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2025 0:59


    “G” is for Green, Jonathan (b. 1955). Painter, printmaker.

    "G” is for Greeks

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2025 0:59


    “G” is for Greeks. Greek immigrants began arriving in South Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century and they quickly found a niche as entrepreneurs within the service sector.

    “C” is for Charleston Riot (1876)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 0:59


    “C” is for Charleston Riot (1876).

    “B” is for Bishopville

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025 0:59


    “B” is for Bishopville (Lee County; 2020 population 2,994).

    “G” is for Gregorie, Anne King (1887 to 1960)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025 0:59


    “G” is for Gregorie, Anne King (1887 to 1960). Historian, teacher, author, editor.

    “C” is for Clover

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 0:59


    “C” is for Clover (York County; 2020 population 6,800).

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