A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO CONGRATULATE AND HONOR DR. WALTER B. EDGAR, DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHERN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, UPON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT, TO COMMEND HIM FOR FORTY YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT STATE, AND TO WISH HIM CONTINUED SUCCESS AND FULFILLMENT IN ALL HIS FUTURE ENDEAVORS. Whereas, the South Carolina House of Representatives has learned that Dr. Walter B. Edgar, director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, will begin a welldeserved retirement in May 2012 after forty years of distinguished service to the people of the Palmetto State as a professor at USC; and Whereas, having made a name for himself as a preeminent historian of South Carolina, Dr. Walter Edgar has brought the rich and dramatic history of this great State alive to people across the country through his books, popular radio shows, public speaking, and teaching; and Whereas, born in Mobile, Alabama, Walter Edgar did his undergraduate work at Davidson College and his graduate work at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on South Carolina and the American South, including (2006), The South Carolina Encyclopedia South (1998), and Carolina: A History Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Campaign That Turned the Tide of the American (2001); and Revolution
A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO CONGRATULATE AND HONOR DR. WALTER B. EDGAR, DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHERN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, UPON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT, TO COMMEND HIM FOR FORTY YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT STATE, AND TO WISH HIM CONTINUED SUCCESS AND FULFILLMENT IN ALL HIS FUTURE ENDEAVORS. Whereas, the South Carolina House of Representatives has learned that Dr. Walter B. Edgar, director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, will begin a welldeserved retirement in May 2012 after forty years of distinguished service to the people of the Palmetto State as a professor at USC; and Whereas, having made a name for himself as a preeminent historian of South Carolina, Dr. Walter Edgar has brought the rich and dramatic history of this great State alive to people across the country through his books, popular radio shows, public speaking, and teaching; and Whereas, born in Mobile, Alabama, Walter Edgar did his undergraduate work at Davidson College and his graduate work at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on South Carolina and the American South, including The South Carolina Encyclopedia (2006), South Carolina: A History (1998), and Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Campaign That Turned the Tide of the American Revolution (2001); and