Grade(s): 11
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
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The second generation of suffragists came to prominence alongside the "New Woman" movement in the early 1900's. The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association...
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Part 1 of the D-Day: 40 Years Ago special of Carolina Journal. Veterans from both Axis and Allied powers gather to remember their experiences on D-Day, and to honor the fallen.
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On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by air, by the Japanese. Nine South Carolinians were killed along with 1,168 of their shipmates on board the Battleship Arizona. The nation was now at...
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Sixteen million men and women joined the armed services. Women went to work in industry to support the war effort. Women received training to prepare them for jobs that were needed by the military...
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Ernest Henderson, a Tuskegee Airman, discusses Eleanore Roosevelt's visit to the airfield and her interest in flying in one of their airplanes, and so she did. When she got back to Washington, she...
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This segment documents the era of the Great Depression. It was a decade of misery that started with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Across the nation in the 1930s, 15 million were unemployed. Thirty...
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Moffatt Burriss’ infantry outfit fought its way through Italy, and continued to fight its way through France. Burriss’ men, along with another company, were sent across the Waal River to try to take...
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South Carolina has, by now, fully ramped up for the war with training bases dotting the state, and everyone helped in every way they could, from saving their bacon grease to giving up their aluminum...
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Every nation provides its people with certain rights. These may be the right to vote, the right to work, or freedom of speech. The idea that the most important rights should be shared by people in...
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The Smithsonian's Institution's National Museum of American History recently opened a live exhibit called America on the Move. This exhibition explores American history by looking at transportation...