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Standard 1.H.3

1.H.3 Evaluate different sources of evidence used in historical inquiry, such as art, artifacts, digital sources, graphs, maps, oral histories, photographs/images, and texts.

Grade(s): 1

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

A Celebration of the Arts with Mac Arthur Goodwin

Lesson

Grades: 1, 2, 3

In celebration of the September nominee of the 2024 SC African American History Calendar, students will learn about the life, contributions, and impact of Mac Arthur Goodwin. Students will also...

The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls | Storytime with SCETV

Video

Grades: 1 2 3 4 5

Written by: Louise Meriwether Illustrated by: Jonathan Green Read by: Inez Tenenbaum Robert Smalls, born a slave in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, gained fame as an African American hero of the...

P is for Palmetto | Storytime with SCETV

Video

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5

P is for Palmetto: A South Carolina Alphabet By: Carol Crane | Illustrations By: Mary Whyte Read by: Molly Spearman, SC Superintendent of Education P is for Palmetto is a collection of evocative pages...

No Fear for Freedom | Storytime with SCETV

Video

Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5

No Fear for Freedom: The Story of the Friendship 9 By: Kimberly P Johnson Illustrations By: Vanessa J. Thompson Read by: Dr. Rosalyn Clark Artis, President of Benedict College Many of the icons of the...

Miss Sedgewick And Her Servants Pose Outside Her Home | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 13

Photo

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Miss Sedgewick and her house servants pose outside her home in the Winter Colony of Aiken in 1896. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

A Polo Match In Aiken | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 12

Photo

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A polo match in Aiken. Both Aiken and Camden have been noted for polo matches, and for sportsmen who raise and train the polo ponies essential to this mounted team sport. 1930s, WPA. Courtesy of the...

A Tennis Game At Highland Park Hotel | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 10

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A tennis game in progress at the Highland Park Hotel in 1890. A note on the back of this photograph, written long afterward when sports clothing for women had changed dramatically, asked a young...

A New Section Of Vaucluse Mill Village | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

Photo

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A new section of the Vaucluse Mill Village of the Graniteville Manufacturing Company. Photo by J.F. Sofge, Graniteville, December 19, 1947. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Georgia Avenue Business District | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

North Augusta has a dual personality; although it has developed since the Second World War as a suburb of Augusta, across the Savannah River in Georgia, its citizens are very conscious of their South...

The Gregg Finishing Plant | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

An aerial photo of the site of the new Gregg Finishing Plant shows the original Graniteville Mills in the right foreground (see William Gregg and The Graniteville Mill). Newtown, a newer section of...

Aiken County Courthouse | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Aiken County Courthouse, photographed by J.A. Palmer, around 1890. The town of Aiken was laid out in 1834, at the western end of the Charleston-Hamburg Railway line, built to carry cotton from the...

A Hunting Party In Aiken, 1910 | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A hunting party in at Aiken, around 1910. The dry, pleasant climate attracted winter visitors to Aiken as early as the 1850s, but its real expansion as a winter resort took place after the Civil War...

House Loaded Onto Two Trailers Ready To be Moved | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 12

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

"Close-up view of house loaded on two trailers ready to be moved. Boy Scout Cabin Site is immediately at right-hand side of picture." This photograph was taken on January 29, 1949, as construction...

Office, And School Truck At Vaucluse, S.C., 1910 | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 9

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Office and school truck at Vaucluse, South Carolina, in 1910. Mr. J. Wesley Rearden is shown standing, with derby hat, on the far side at the front end of the truck. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana...

Guests At Sedgewick House Pose With Their Wheelchair And Bicycle | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

"Mr. Fisher, Julie, and Hosie," guests at Sedgewick House, one of a number of boarding houses that were part of the Aiken Winter Colony, pose with their wheelchair and bicycle in 1896. Courtesy of the...

The Town Of Ellenton | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 9

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Ellenton, one of several towns that was moved in order to make room for the Savannah River Plant (see South Carolina Enters The Nuclear Age). Here Herbert Harden, Railway Express Agent, moves bundles...

The Highland Park Hotel Burning | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Highland Park Hotel burning. C.D. Hardt, photographer, 1898. Courtesy of the Aiken County Historical Museum.

The Highland Park Hotel | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Highland Park Hotel was an important part of the "Winter Colony" of Aiken, photographed here in February of 1894. Built in 1866, the hotel provided luxury accommodations for wealthy visitors from...

A Slasher Works In The Hickman Mill | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 12

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A slasher works in the Hickman Mill, one of the Graniteville Mills in Aiken County, in this December 1946, photograph by J.F. Sofge. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

The Graniteville Mill | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Graniteville Mill, built by William Gregg (see William Gregg) in 1846, was one of the first cotton textile mills in the South, and laid the basis for the expansion of South Carolina's textile...

A Cotton Field During Harvesting in Aiken | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A cotton field during harvesting in Aiken. Courtesy of the Aiken County Historical Museum.

Asparagus | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

"A" is for Asparagus. Asparagus was an important cash crop in South Carolina from the 1910s until the mid-1930s. With cotton prices low and the boll weevil creeping closer, farmers in the "Ridge"...

Pebble Lodge in Aiken | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Pebble Lodge in Aiken, home of Miss Elizabeth League, was photographed around 1900. The Queen Anne style of this house was popular around 1880-1910. Courtesy of the Aiken County Historical Museum.

Log Cabin in Aiken | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This log cabin in Aiken, photographed in 1896, has an external stone chimney. Its wooden shingle roof and construction (quite possibly using notched logs) represent the most common folk housing of the...