S.C. History

South Carolina's historical events, people and places. Content has been curated to meet South Carolina Social Studies Standards.
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Pierce Butler | S.C. Hall of Fame
Pierce Butler | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Biography of statesman Pierce Butler, who was an American Revolutionary War leader, South Carolina delegate to both the Continental Congress and Constitutional Conventions, as well as a United States...
Robert Marvin | S.C. Hall of Fame
Robert Marvin | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Robert Marvin, the father of southern landscape architecture, received numerous accolades and international recognition for his work in and philosophy of modern design within landscape architecture...
Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame
Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This episode is about Maude Callen (1898 -- 1990), a Nurse-Midwife, who singlehandedly brought health care to rural Pineville, S.C. and the surrounding area of Berkeley County in the early 1920s...
Charles Pinckney | S.C. Hall of Fame
Charles Pinckney | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 4 8

Statesman Charles Pinckney's beliefs helped forge the United States Constitution. Fluent in five languages, yet educated and reared entirely on South Carolina soil, this man was elected four times to...
Mary Boykin Chesnut | S.C. Hall of Fame
Mary Boykin Chesnut | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A 5-minute biography of the life of American Civil War era diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut. Through the use of available archival materials, scholar interviews, and historical illustrations this program...
John Rutledge | S.C. Hall of Fame
John Rutledge | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 4 8

5-minute historical profile of the life of statesman John Rutledge, South Carolina’s first Governor and delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
Mary McLeod Bethune | S.C. Hall of Fame
Mary McLeod Bethune | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This profile will show how Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, born to poor cotton farmers in Mayesville, S.C., would brilliantly start a school of her own with just $1.50, which became an internationally...
Thomas Lynch Jr.| S.C. Hall of Fame
Thomas Lynch Jr.| S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 4 8

Biography of the life of Declaration of Independence signer and noted statesman Thomas Lynch Jr. Through the use of archival materials, scholar interviews, and historical reenactment, this program...
William Gilmore Simms | S.C. Hall of Fame
William Gilmore Simms | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 4 8

William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a poet, novelist, and historian whose work was a major force in antebellum Southern literature. He was called one of America’s best...
William S. Hall | S.C. Hall of Fame
William S. Hall | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Dr. William S. Hall (1915-1995) -- William S. Hall, M.D., served as the Superintendent for the S.C. State Hospital and became the first State Commissioner of Mental Health in S.C. After WWII, the S.C...