This episode continues our Dubose and Dorothy Heyward month, discussing these two Charleston Renaissance writers. We’re talking with Annette Guild, the Metadata Specialist at the SC Historical Society, who recently finished a project to digitize some of the papers of the Heywards. Those are now available on the Lowcountry Digital Library, as well as Digital Library of South Carolina, and the Digital Public Library of America.

We are heading back to the roaring 20s to talk about Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, the Charleston writers. Dubose was best known for his novel "Porgy," which became a play and then opera, "Porgy & Bess" developed with Ira and George Gershwin.

In this episode, we’re talking with author and historian Harlan Greene, who recently wrote the book “Porgy’s Ghost: The Life and Works of Dorothy Heyward and Her Contribution to an American Classic”.

We’re exploring the story of two men who were accused of similar crimes, but whose fates were very different. John Burnet, a Scottish immigrant, was taken into custody in the summer of 1775 in today’s Colleton County. He was accused of preaching to enslaved people and encouraging them to preach on their own, as well as revolt against their enslavers. An enslaved man accused of preaching at these same gatherings was named George and while John eventually went free, George met a very different end.

In this re-release episode, we revisit Mary Musgrove, a woman who played a role in colonial South Carolina and Georgia as peacemaker, translator, and liaison to Native Americans - specifically those in the Creek Nation.

In this episode, we're talking with Dr. David Dangerfield, an associate professor in the history department at USC Salkehatchie whose research interests include free persons of color and non-elite whites in the antebellum South. We talk about the subject of his lecture, free people of color - and those who earned their freedom - in the American Revolution.

We’re exploring the life of one of our state’s most passionate seekers of American liberty – Christopher Gadsden. You may have heard his name before, because various areas and streets across the state bear his name - even a wharf in Charleston. And you may also know that he created the famous Gadsden flag, with the coiled snake that says Don’t Tread on Me. We’re going to talk more about that flag and his life as an outspoken merchant and leader when tensions with England were at their height.

Because the American Revolution was being fought on American soil, the soldier’s family was often involved in the war in some way, too – no matter if they were Patriots or Loyalists. Sometimes this took the form of sons and fathers fighting in battles side by side or in separate areas. Sometimes, this meant that wives followed their husbands and camped with them as the men fought. But it also meant that when husbands and fathers were off fighting, the women and children were home to deal with daily life, invading enemy troops, or keeping their families fed.

We talk the lives of about some of those women in this episode, Real Housewives of the Revolution.

In this episode, we’re going to talk about some early declarations of independence here in South Carolina. That’s right, there were some parts of the state – or then colony – who put themselves forth as independent even before July 4, 1776. And the pronouncements here were in large part due to one man, William Henry Drayton.