S.C. History

South Carolina's historical events, people and places. Content has been curated to meet South Carolina Social Studies Standards.

Forgotten Founder: Governor Pinckney | Carolina Stories

Episode 5

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Grades: 3 4 5

Four months have passed, and they are exhausted. One by one, the roll of states is called. Each one signs, one by one. When the Convention ended on September 17, 1787, the Constitution included a...

Forgotten Founder: Family Rifts | Carolina Stories

Episode 6

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Grades: 3 4 5

In 1794, shortly before Pinckney was elected to a third term as governor, his wife, Mary Laurens Pinckney, gave birth to a son, Henry Laurens Pinckney. After serving two years of his third term as...

Forgotten Founder: Introducing Charles Pinckney | Carolina Stories

Episode 1

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Grades: 3 4 5

Forgotten Founder is a historical visualization of the biography of Charles Pinckney, whose life serves as the basis for much of where and how we live today. Through the use of original digital art...

Forgotten Founder: Siege at Savannah | Carolina Stories

Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5

At age 21, Charles Pinckney was a lawyer, a State Representative and a Lieutenant in the S.C. Militia. His first exposure to war was at the siege of Savannah. The siege at Savannah was an attempt to...

Eyewitness to 9/11, An Upstate Story

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Grades: 5 9 10 11 12

Gaffney native Father Lyndon Harris was the priest in charge of the St. Paul Episcopal Cathedral that is located directly across the street from where the World Trade Center Towers once stood. In this...