Lesson
Grades
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The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 7 deals with recollections of the camps, showing how a little bit of...
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Lesson
Grades
- 7
- 10
- 11
The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors.In lesson 6 the conditions in the camps are described in detail.The goal of...
Audio
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
7
After the Civil War, and the end of slavery, cotton continued to remain as one of South Carolina’s mainstay crops, even well into the 20th century.
Video
Grades
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
6
At the beginning of the war, South Carolinians prepared to fight in either Europe, or the Pacific. For many, their first taste of combat would be in North Africa. In this video segment, S.C. veterans...
Video
Grades
- 5
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
7
The Tuskegee Airmen were African-American pilots during WWII. Before the war, the Army thought African-Americans could only be used as laborers. African-Americans faced all sorts of prejudice and...
Video
Grades
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
8
The Army sent the 82nd Airborne, along with General George Patton’s armored divisions, to take the island of Sicily, off the coast of Italy. British forces also assisted the Americans in the Sicily...
Video
Grades
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
9
The two most widely used bomber aircraft used by the U.S. in World War II were the Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress,” and the Consolidated B-24 “Liberator.” During bombing runs, the two biggest fears...
Audio
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
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Episode
3
In this segment, Walter Edgar discusses the Heyward Brothers, and their method of digging “rice dikes” for growing rice. The Heyward Brothers are seen as the pioneers of the tidal cultivation in South...
Audio
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
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Episode
8
Dr. Peter Coclanis, the Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professor & Director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, joins Dr. Edgar for the first of a...
Audio
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
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Episode
1
In this first segment on ‘The Importance of Cotton,’ Dr. Peter Coclanis gives us a brief overview of South Carolina’s economic landscape, pre-Revolutionary War (1763). Before the American Revolution...