Walter Edgar

Professor Walter Edgar is an award-winning expert on the South and South Carolina. Over the past three decades he has written or edited nine books about South Carolina and the American South, including his most recent, Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide in the American Revolution.

Walter Edgar was graduated from Davidson College in 1965 with a BA in history; he received his MA (1967) and Ph.D. (1969) degrees from the University of South Carolina. In 1972 he joined the faculty of the History Department and in 1980 was named director of the Institute for Southern Studies. Dr. Edgar holds the Claude Henry Neuffer Chair in Southern Studies. In June 1999 he was named the George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, and in 2001 he received the Louise Fry Scudder Faculty Award.

Walter's other titles include:

South Carolina: A History
The South Carolina Encyclopedia


Rick Bragg in the Movies

Even though you weren’t able to attend the September 26, 2011, sold-out world premiere of Alabama’s Rick Bragg: Out of the Dirt, here’s your opportunity to view the entire movie at home, as well as much bonus footage not seen in the original documentary.

Listen in on distinguished Alabamaians, local friends and family tell inside tales on Rick as a child and award-winning best-selling author. Rick also gives his life’s philosophy in many scenes. Find out about his mother’s poetry; hear his aunt tell of dressing him as a girl when he was a tot. If ever there was a priceless gift, this is it.

You may order the two DVD (22.95) set through our secure, encrypted link Here

We also have signed copies of every edition of every Rick Bragg title ever written. You may view those by Clicking Here