With the closure of the museum due to COVID-19, we got creative in how we shared stories and resources with you. The museum is back open but operating on limited hours and all tours and special events are still canceled. We will continue to offer our History at Home series once a week, on Wednesdays, and monthly Lunch & Learn will be virtual for the foreseeable future.The Zoom login information can be found on our Facebook page. 

Heroes on Zoom:

Teddy Roosevelt had his own ideas about how young people should learn about our nation, so he and co-author Henry Cabot Lodge put together a book of stories called "Hero Tales From American History."

Starting at 9 a.m. on Sept. 3, Joe Long -- curator of education at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, will deliver the first of a series of short lectures based on the book. Called "Heroes on Zoom," the sessions will run only about 15 minutes each, and be streamed on Zoom for safety. Read more about it here.

• Chapter 1, Washington
• Chapter 2, Daniel Boone
• Chapter 3, George Rogers Clark
• Chapter 4, The Battle of Trenton
• Chapter 5, Bennington
• Chapter 6, King’s Mountain
• Chapter 7, The Storming of Stony Point
• Chapter 8, Gouverneur Morris
• Chapter 9, The Burning of The “Philadelphia”
• Chapter 10, The Cruise of The “Wasp”
• Chapter 11, The General Armstrong Privateer
• Chapter 12, The Battle Of New Orleans
• Chapter 13, John Quincy Adams And The Right Of Petition
• Chapter 14, Francis Parkman
• Chapter 15,  "Remember The Alamo”
• Chapter 16, Hampton Roads
• Chapter 17, The Flag-Bearer
• Chapter 18, The Death of Stonewall Jackson
• Chapter 19, The Charge at Gettysburg
• Chapter 20, General Grant and The Vicksburg Campaign
• Chapter 21, Robert Gould Shaw
• Chapter 22, Charles Russell Lowell
• Chapter 23, Sheridan at Cedar Creek
• Chapter 24, Lieutenant Crushing and the Ram Albemarle
• Chapter 25, Farragut At Mobile Bay
• Chapter 26, Lincoln

History at Home sessions

With the school year back in swing, our History at Home sessions have transitioned into Homeschool Friday. Hosted by our ever famous Curator of Education, Joe Long, we have offered Homeschool Fridays on the second Friday of each month during the academic year. The programs are geared towards students of all ages. Joe introduces them in this short clip. 

• "How to Be A Villain: Tarleton and Kilpatrick”
• " Rally ‘Round the Flag”
• "Dread of the Adriatic: U-Boat Skipper Georg Von Trapp” 
• “Leadership Lessons from Fredericksburg”
• “Blue to Grey to Blue: The Military Career of Fightin' Joe Wheeler."
• “Iron Men and Canvas Wings: SC Aviators in The Great War” 
• “Sailing to War in the Pacific: The USS Columbia, CL-56”
• “SC and the Air War By Night”
• “Stories of Wade Hampton III”
• "A Different Kind of Valor: South Carolina’s Yellow Fever Volunteers"
• "Our Hearts Beat Like Muffled Drums: Chaplain John L. Girardeau"
• "Border Troubles: The South Carolina National Guard and the Mexican Punitive Expedition" 
• “Forgotten Founder: Charles Pinckney and the Siege of Savannah.” 
• "The Story of The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room" 
• "A Broken Sword: The Life of Micah Jenkins"
• “Heroism on the Hindenburg Line” 
• “Taylor and Baruch: Two SC Confederate Doctors”
• “Dr. B. H. Teague and Confederate Memory"
• “South Carolina in the Spanish-American War” 
• "How to Study a Battle"
• "Rally Round The Flag Museum Tour"
• "The Swamp Fox and the Lion of Africa"
• Confederate and World War Commerce Raiders
• The Alamo

Educational Videos

• Gas Alarms
• Medal of Honor recipient James C. Dozier
• The oldest artifact at the Relic Room
• Rare LeMat Revolver added to Relic Room collections
• The Morse Carbine
• S. Isaac, Campbell & Co. Backpack
• The Orr’s Rifles Flag
• Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid

     Halloween Series:

• Weller Rothrock’s Legacy
• The Curse of the Gold Dollar Love Token
• The Foot that Was Not Lost
• The Phantom Horseman of Bull Street

Podcasts

• Untold Civil War Podcast: The Greatest Calvary Commander of the Confederacy with Fritz Hamer

Lunch and Learn

The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum enjoys being able to provide educational resources to students, young and old, during this time. Our guest speakers and their stories are not always a direct representation of the museum itself.

April L&L with Al Billings, An Objective View of the Vietnam War 

May L&L with Ryan Floyd, Military Escalation and Diplomacy during the Vietnam Confli ct

June L&L with Joyce Wood, Discoveries from World War I Memoir: Exploring the Haunts of Pirates 

August L&L wit h Walter Curry, The Thompson Family: Untold Stories from the Past, 1830 - 1960

South Carolina: The Beginning

Have you found an arrowhead? Was South Carolina home to women pirates? Could mosquitoes, harsh heat and deadly diseases have kept our state from being settled?

Learn answers to these questions while exploring some museum objects, as the Relic Room's own Hilary Brannock gives you a fascinating, and informative, overview of South Carolina's colonial history! Watch the video here.

South Carolina Fights for Independence

Join us as we journey through South Carolina and discuss the major Revolutionary War conflicts that helped us win the War for Independence. Hosted by Administrative Assistant, Hilary Brannock. View the video here.

Newspaper Headlines from WWII 

The Second World War began on 1 September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. After the Third Reich occupied this northern European country in early October, very little action happened until the spring of 1940. Despite declaring war on Germany on 3 September in compliance with their Polish defense treaty, France and Great Britain did nothing militarily to come to the aid of their overmatched ally.

The French (joined by the British Expeditionary Force) and German armies stared each other down across the borders. Contemporary newspapers labeled it the “Phony War,” but things were about to change. On 9 April 1940, the Nazi army, navy, and air force attacked Norway and Denmark. A month later, Hitler’s now infamous Blitzkrieg overran France and the Low Countries.

In South Carolina, these cataclysmic events had little initial impact. Life continued as always, as the state (and nation) recovered from the Great Depression.

In the coming days, we will extract headlines and stories from period SC newspapers to show South Carolinians viewed unfolding events. Just like with the Covid-19 crisis, no one knew how these events that seemed so far and away and unrelated to our daily lives, would impact us like they did!

• Week of April 6, 1940
• Week of April 10, 1940
• Week of April 16, 1940
• Week of April 22, 1940
• Week of April 29, 1940
• Week of May 4, 1940
• Week of May 11, 1940
• Week of May 18, 1940
• Week of May 26, 1940
• Week of June 1, 1940

Looking back 102 years to the Flu Pandemic of 1918

As we contemplate the current Covid-19 crisis, it is valuable to reflect on the most devasting global epidemic of the 20th century, the flu pandemic of 1918, popularly (and erroneously) known as the “Spanish flu.” Unlike today the world was suffering through a World War when the disease struck. By the time the pandemic ended more people perished from the virus than the bloodshed  in the trenches of the Western Front and the high seas.

Read about it here.

The Clayton Knight Committee: RAF/RCAF recruiter in neutral United States, 1940-42 

When Germany invaded Poland September 1, 1939, Britain and France came to the aid of their Polish ally three days later to declared war on the German invaders. Most of the British Commonwealth countries soon followed the mother country and declared war on Hitler’s Germany. Canada was a large nation with a small population, in 1940 it numbered 11.5 m, less than 9% of that in the US. Realizing how small Canada was its World War I flying ace, Billy Bishop, conceived of a plan to recruit American fliers to augment its small Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). In 1939, using his aeronautic contacts in the US and those within the FDR Administration, Bishop gained tacit approval to organize a recruiting organization in the US consisting of Canadians and sympathetic Americans to hire Americans with flying experience. In doing so the Committee needed to stay out of the spotlight as much as possible to avoid compromising American neutrality laws then in effect. Although Roosevelt and many in his administration sympathized with Britain and her allies in the war with Hitler, most Americans did not want the nation embroiled in another global conflict as it had done barely two decades before.

 Read about it here.