S.C. History

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

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Battery Jasper | History of SC Slide Collection

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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

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Camp Jackson Postcard, 1917 | History of SC Slide Collection

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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...

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

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

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Governor Martin Frederick Ansel | History of SC Slide Collection

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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

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The Palace of Commerce | History of SC Slide Collection

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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

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

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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...

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The Johnson Rifles | History of SC Slide Collection

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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...

The Broom of Justice | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Broom of Justice | History of SC Slide Collection

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The broom of justice sweeps the Coleman Livingston Blease (see Governor Coleman L. Blease) administration out of office in this cartoon from the Columbia "Record" on September 9, 1914, titled "Good...

First Breakfast at Camp Jackson, 1898 | History of SC Slide Collection

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First Breakfast at Camp Jackson, 1898 | History of SC Slide Collection

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James S. White of Rock Hill kept a scrapbook of his activities as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the first South Carolina Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Here he and his friend J.C...

5th Massachusetts Infantry on Parade | History of SC Slide Collection

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5th Massachusetts Infantry on Parade | History of SC Slide Collection

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Recruits for the army that was raised to fight the Spanish-American War, begun in 1898 when the battleship "Maine" exploded in a Cuban harbor, were trained at Camp Wetherill near Greenville. This Army...

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