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Language: German, Topics: Going to the Fair. Learn the German words for the sights, sounds, and smells of the fair.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Growing Up Healthy. Tips on how to grow up healthy -- in Spanish.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Finding Places in My Town. Directions, landmarks, and other necessary Spanish words to find your way around town.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Looking at Zoo Animals. A variety of vocabulary words in the context of the zoo.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Buying Groceries. A trip to the grocery store teaches students a variety of food-related vocabulary words.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Playing with Animals. Learn to use Spanish when speaking about animals.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Celebrating with Friends. The words associated with a variety of parties and celebrations.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Meeting Again. What to say in Spanish when you meet someone for the second time.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Choosing a Present. Spanish vocabulary describing how to select a gift for a friend.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Learning at My School. Spanish words in the classroom and around the school.
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Language: Spanish, Topics: Visiting My House. Learn more about speaking Spanish when visiting someone's home.
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December 1-31 Visit the Knowitall blog for helpful information on using Knowitall all through the month! View our Winter Holidays Collection! December Observances (Week): Hanukkah - Dec. 7-15, 2023...
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November 1-30 Visit the Knowitall blog for helpful information on using Knowitall all through the month! View our Thanksgiving Day Collection and our Winter Holidays Collection! November Observances...
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October 1-31 Visit the Knowitall blog for helpful information on using Knowitall all through the month! October Observances (Month): Archaeology Month October is Archaeology Month in South Carolina...
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September 1-30 Visit the Knowitall blog for helpful information on using Knowitall all through the month! September Observances (Month): Hispanic Heritage (September 15 - October 15) Hispanic Heritage...
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August 1-31 Visit the Knowitall blog for helpful information on using Knowitall all through the month! August Observances (Day): Click on a number below. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |...
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July 1-31 July is National Peach Month In March of 1982, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July to be National Peach Month. South Carolina is second in the nation in peach production (second only to...
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June 1-30 June is African American Music Appreciation Month The month of June provides a time to appreciate and celebrate African American musicians, composers, singers, and songwriters. This...
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African-American protestors of segregation picket restaurants and stores on Main Street in Columbia, sometime around 1960, proclaiming "Together We Stand, Divided We Fall." Courtesy of the South...
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Since the end of Reconstruction, South Carolina had been regarded as the heart of the "Solid South," where only the Democratic Party elected officeholders on either the state or national level. The...
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In 1960, Richard M. Nixon attempted to appeal to South Carolina Democrats who were unhappy with their national party's choice for president, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy. In a cartoon...
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The growing pressures brought to bear against legal segregation by the federal court system, that culminated in the 1954 Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. The Board of Education" of Topeka, Kansas...
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After the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States entered the Cold War determined to retain its leadership in nuclear warfare. One of the results of the entry into...
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Polio, the disease which had crippled Franklin D. Roosevelt, remained a serious threat to the health of American children until the development of a vaccine to prevent it, by Jonas Salk in 1950. This...
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Recruits arrive at the Yemassee station in 1950 to begin their training as marines for the Korean War. Courtesy of the United States Marine Corps Parris Island Museum.
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Postwar politics in South Carolina were affected by the many changes that the war had brought. Many new citizens flocked to the state, partly because of the many military bases there, and partly...
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The famous "Barnwell Ring" of South Carolina. Senator Edgar Brown, left, the state's senior Senator and chairman of the finance committee, and House Speaker Sol Blatt (see Solomon Blatt), both from...
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Slowly, South Carolina witnessed the rebirth of a two-party system in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1964, the state voted against a southern Democratic candidate, Texan Lyndon B. Johnson, and instead cast...
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Henri Monteith Treadwell (age 17), James Solomon (age 33) and Robert Anderson (age 19), speaking to news media after registering in September 1963 as the first African-American students at the...
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The first integration of public higher education in South Carolina came at Clemson University. The student who successfully sued for admission with the help of his NAACP attorney, Matthew Perry (left)...