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Title Citizen-scholar : essays in honor of Walter Edgar / edited by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., with the assistance of Evan A. Kutzler
Published Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2016

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Contents Cover; Citizen-Scholar; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1. Citizen-Scholar; Walter in Metamorphosis; Walter Bellingrath Edgar: The Permanent File and Academic Citizenship; Walter Edgar and Squash; Walter Edgar as Listener; Part 2. Essays in Honor of Walter Edgar; Furling That Banner: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Flag in South Carolina, 1961-2000; Walter Edgar and the Southern Military Tradition; The Grand Jury in Colonial South Carolina: An Index of Societal Concerns
The Worlds of John Tunno: Scottish Emigrant, Charleston Loyalist, London Merchant, 1746-1819Rediscovering Milo H. Berry: Columbia Artisan and Businessman, 1843-1907; Localism and Confederate Nationalism: The Transformation of Values from Community to Nation in Edgefield, South Carolina; "Is the Rubicon Passable?" African Methodism and the Gospel of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century South Carolina; Another "Faithful Index": Inventive Activity and Economic Innovation in Nineteenth-Century South Carolina; William Gilmore Simms and His World after the Civil War: A New Look at Joscelyn
From "Cracklins" to "Gourmet Bacon Puffs": The Complex Origins and Shifting Shape of Southern FoodwaysExtended Horizons: Lowcountry Women in World War II; Twenty-First-Century South Carolina's Economic Development Dilemma: The Evolution of a Crisis, 1950-2014; Notes; Contributors; Index
Summary "Citizen-Scholar comprises essays written in honor of Walter Edgar, South Carolina's preeminent historian and founding director of the University of South Carolina (USC) Institute for Southern Studies. In the opening overview of Edgar's impressive academic career, editor Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., discusses Edgar's role as the Palmetto State's omnipresent public historian, radio program host, author of the landmark South Carolina: A History, and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia. The former George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies, and Louise Fry Scudder Professor, Edgar has been recognized with inductions into the South Carolina Hall of Fame and the South Carolina Higher Education Hall of Fame and has received the South Carolina Order of the Palmetto and the South Carolina Governor's Award in the Humanities. The first section of Citizen-Scholar features personal essays about Edgar and his legacy from author and historian Winston Groom, USC vice president Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, USC president Harris Pastides, and historian Mark M. Smith. The essays that follow are written by some of the nation's most renowned scholars of southern history and culture including Charles Joyner, Andrew H. Meyers, Barbara L. Bellows, John M. Sherrer III, Orville Vernon Burton, Bernard E. Powers Jr., Peter A. Coclanis, John McCardell, James C. Cobb, Amy Thompson McCandless, and Lacy K. Ford, Jr. The second section of the collection includes essays spanning a range of regional, national, and international topics, all associated with Edgar's research. These essays were written as a tribute to Edgar, both as a historian and as a public scholar, a man actively involved in his profession as well as in his community, both locally and statewide"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Edgar, Walter B., 1943-
Edgar, Walter B., 1943-
Edgar, Walter B., 1943-
University of South Carolina -- Faculty -- Biography
University of South Carolina
Historians -- South Carolina -- Biography
College teachers -- South Carolina -- Biography
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
College teachers
Historians
Historiography
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
South Carolina -- Historiography
South Carolina
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Brinkmeyer, Robert H., editor
Edgar, Walter B., 1943- honouree.
LC no. 2016048420
ISBN 9781611177510
1611177510