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Women in Leadership

Successful women making a difference in their chosen professions! 

Successful women making a difference in their chosen professions! 

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Collection Women - Civil Rights & Equal Rights Advocates
Women - Civil Rights & Equal Rights Advocates

Learn about women who have fought for equal justice under the law!

Collection Women - Disability Rights Advocates
Women - Disability Rights Advocates

Learn about those who advocate for the disabled!

Collection Women in Arts Professions
Women in Arts Professions

Learn about women in various forms of art!

Collection Women in Aviation
Women in Aviation

Learn about women in aviation, women astronauts, and more!

Collection Women in Business
Women in Business

Learn about women who have careers in business!

Collection Women in Education
Women in Education

Find out about women educators who made a difference in the lives of those whom they influenced!

Collection Women in Engineering
Women in Engineering

Curious about women in engineering? Learn more here!

Collection Women in Government & Public Administration
Women in Government & Public Administration

Learn about women who serve in government and public administration!

Collection Women in Leadership Roles
Women in Leadership Roles

Learn about women who lead in a multitude of ways!

Collection Women in Legal Professions
Women in Legal Professions

Women lawyers, judges, and women in other professions related to law.

Collection Women in Literature
Women in Literature

Women in literature, writing, editing, publishing, illustrating, women poets, novelists and more!

Collection Women in Media
Women in Media

Find out about women who work in the media!

Collection Women in Medicine
Women in Medicine

Careers in medicine are available to women in many fields! Learn more!

Collection Women in Science
Women in Science

Learn about women who have chosen careers in science!

Collection Women in Sports
Women in Sports

Women were first allowed to compete in the Olympics in 1900. However, they could only compete in tennis and golf. After the decision was made to allow women to compete in boxing, women were allowed to compete in all...

Collection Women in Technology
Women in Technology

Meet women who have pursued STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) related careers.

Content Type
Pat Conroy's

Audio

Grades

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Pat Conroy's "Literary Immortality" | Walter Edgar's Journal
Episode 9
Cassandra King, and Pat Conroy’s brother, Tim, read letters from Pat Conroy. In the letters, Pat Conroy honors his mother, his friends from The Citadel who went to fight in Vietnam, and the love for...
A New Front, Part 4 4

Video

Grades

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  • Higher Education
A New Front, Part 4
Episode 4
With the number of casualties growing in the Italian campaign, the demand for doctors, nurses, and combat medics increased. Several veterans discuss their experiences enlisting, and what life and...
Found: Mary Chesnut's Civil War Photo Albums (Full Version)

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Grades

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Found: Mary Chesnut's Civil War Photo Albums (Full Version)
Episode 4
Mary Chesnut’s diary, originally published forty years after the Civil War as Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, is generally acknowledged today as the finest literary work of the Confederacy. Spiced by the...
A Woman Ahead Of Her Time | Walter Edgar's Journal - Episode 3 The Early Days of Photography | Walter Edgar's Journal

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Grades

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The Early Days of Photography | Walter Edgar's Journal
Episode 1
In the first segment on Mary Chesnut’s photo album, Harvey Teal details the earliest days of photography, and describes the various types of photographs: daguerreotype, amber type, Carte de Visite...
The Album's Journey | Walter Edgar's Journal

Audio

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The Album's Journey | Walter Edgar's Journal
Episode 2
Walter Edgar discusses with Martha Daniels and Henry Fulmer about references made to the photo album found in Mary Chesnut’s diary, along with references found in the South Caroliniana Library’s...
A Woman Ahead Of Her Time | Walter Edgar's Journal

Audio

Grades

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A Woman Ahead Of Her Time | Walter Edgar's Journal
Episode 3
Martha Daniels analyzes the albums’ “Panoramic Breadth,” and how Mary Chesnut was an educated woman ‘ahead of her time.’ Along with photos of famous Southerners, the albums also feature photographs of...
Carlisle Floyd | S.C. Hall of Fame Anne Worsham Richardson | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Anne Worsham Richardson | S.C. Hall of Fame
Known as the “Charleston Bird Lady,” Anne Worsham Richardson (1919-2012), renowned wildlife artist, was sometimes dubbed the Audubon of her time. No other South Carolinian has done more to portray the...
Piano Music During The Civil War Era (Full Version)

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Grades

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Piano Music During The Civil War Era (Full Version)
Episode 8
The American Civil War shaped every aspect of life in the South, including music. Along with songs and military band music published in the South during the war, a considerable repertoire of solo...
Mary Chesnut's Scrapbook | Walter Edgar's Journal

Audio

Grades

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Mary Chesnut's Scrapbook | Walter Edgar's Journal
Episode 2
Dr. Julia Stern discusses writing her book Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic, and recounts meeting the descendants of Mary Chesnut, along with seeing Chesnut’s personal photo album, containing photos of...
The Shift In Cultural Weather | Walter Edgar's Journal

Audio

Grades

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The Shift In Cultural Weather | Walter Edgar's Journal
Episode 3
Dr. Stern goes into the South’s reaction to the Witherspoon Murder, and how people in the South were cautious regarding the threat of slave rebellions. She then analyzes Mary Chesnut’s use of the...
Mary Chesnut On Emancipation | Walter Edgar's Journal - Episode 7 The Feuds | Walter Edgar's Journal

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The Feuds | Walter Edgar's Journal
Episode 6
In this segment on Mary Chesnut’s diary, Dr. Stern discusses the feuds between Joe Johnston and Jefferson Davis, along with one between Mary Chesnut and Lucy Pickens. Dr. Stern finishes this segment...