View all Subjects

Social Studies

The Main Road at Camp Jackson, 1917 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

Photo

The main road at Camp Jackson, 1917. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.

African American Servicemen in WWI | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

Photo

African-American recruits served honorably in World War I in segregated units. This unknown young man posed, wearing his uniform, for Columbia photographer Richard S. Roberts, around 1920. Courtesy of...

Battery Jasper | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

Photo

Although this photograph of Battery Jasper, located several hundred yards east of Fort Moultrie, was taken in the late 1890s, it shows the construction of the coastal defense system around the fort...

Camp Jackson Postcard, 1917 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

Photo

The outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914 at first did not seem to involve Americans. President Woodrow Wilson, who had spent part of his boyhood in Columbia, promised to keep the U.S. out of the...

Kings Mountain: The Turn of the Tide of Success | The Southern Campaign

Episode 1

Video

Kings Mountain is a rocky wooded hill on the border of North and South Carolina. On October 7, 1780, a thousand patriots surrounded and attacked the British troops and Loyalist soldiers. This battle...

President Taft Visits Columbia, S.C., 1909 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

Photo

President Taft speaks at the South Carolina State Fair Grounds on November 6, 1909. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.

Governor Martin Frederick Ansel | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

Photo

Martin Frederick Ansel (1850-1945) is being sworn in as governor in the South Carolina State House. Ansel served as governor from 1907 to 1911. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

The Palace of Commerce | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

Photo

The advent of a new century made many leaders of the South begin to talk of a New South, where industry and diversity would end the poverty and backwardness that had characterized too much of the...

The First Suffrage Parade in South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

Photo

The equal suffrage movement of women demanding the right to vote developed slowly in South Carolina. This parade in Aiken on January 26, 1917, claimed to be "The First Suffrage Parade in South...

The Johnson Rifles | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

Photo

Union County's most famous military organization was "The Johnson Rifles." Named in honor of Governor David Johnson, these riflemen were the first South Carolinians to report for duty in the Mexican...

Grade

Subjects

Social Studies

Filter By: