S.C. History

South Carolina's historical events, people and places. Content has been curated to meet South Carolina Social Studies Standards.

Horseshoe of South Carolina College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Horseshoe of South Carolina College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 40

This colored lithograph portrays the horseshoe of South Carolina College as it appeared in 1853, a half century after its founding. An act to establish the College was passed in December of 1801, but...

Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 39

Newberry College, pictured in this engraving as it appeared around 1860, was one of a number of denominational colleges founded in the state just before the Civil War. Chartered in 1856 as a Lutheran...

Limestone College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Limestone College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 38

Limestone College women stroll in front of the college's main building in Gaffney; the skirt styles, blue jeans, and car date this photograph as sometime in the early 1950s. Their attire is a far cry...

Lander College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Lander College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 37

Lander College, in Greenwood, was founded in Anderson County by Dr. Samuel Lander for the Upper South Carolina Methodist Conference in 1873 as the Williamston Female College. When it moved to...

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Traveling Southern Style: A lesson on the Jim Crow Laws

The Negro Travelers’ Green Book began publication in 1936. The book offered “Assured Protection for the Negro Traveler”. The publisher-owner Victor Green began the idea from personal experiences while...

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WWI Speech | Digital Tradition

Resident of Awendaw, SC (Charleston County) resident who likes to sing old gospel songs and do recitations of passages.

Harbison Agricultural College Students | History of SC Slide Collection

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Harbison Agricultural College Students | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 36

Harbison Agricultural College students, Class of 1916. Harbison was a school for African-Americans founded by the Presbyterian Church in the area north of Columbia to train young men to be better...

Aerial View of the New Furman Campus | History of SC Slide Collection

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Aerial View of the New Furman Campus | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 35

An aerial view of the new Furman campus, 1959. In the summer of 1958, Furman moved to this new campus six miles north of town. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Greenville Women's College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Greenville Women's College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 34

Greenville Women's College, photographed on May 15th, 1908. Established in 1854 by the South Carolina Baptist Convention, Greenville Baptist Female College opened in February 1856, on this site...

A Card Advertising "The Greenville Baptist Female College" | History of SC Slide Collection

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A Card Advertising "The Greenville Baptist Female College" | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 33

A card advertising "The Greenville Baptist Female College," issued by Professor C.H. Judson (see Charles Hallette Judson), December 23, 1863, announced that, "during the suspension of the Furman...

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