Lesson
Grades
- 7
- 10
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The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Holocaust survivors discuss the determination that was required to survive...
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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. Lesson 7 deals with recollections of the camps, showing how a little bit of...
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
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
- 10
- 11
- 12
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...
Audio
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
5
With the invention of the “Cotton Gin” by Eli Whitney, combined with methods we would today call “scientific plant breeding,” the cotton industry boomed in South Carolina, in the early 19th century...
Audio
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
6
With the success of cotton in South Carolina, entrepreneurs in other states looked to cash in on the success of cotton plantations. When the cotton economy and market-shares begin to decline in S.C...
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...
Audio
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
2
Walter Edgar begins by noting how Charleston played a crucial role in South Carolina’s economy. Dr. Coclanis then discusses the major exports from South Carolina. In the 18th century,rice was S.C.'s...
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...