NINETY SIX, S.C. (WIS) - Next year will mark the country’s 250th birthday, but historians say Americans might not have a nation to celebrate if it had not been for South Carolina and the pivotal role it played in the American Revolution.

“This is where America’s freedom was won,” Van Hipp, a trustee with the American Battlefield Trust, said.

It’s a lesson State Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver believes students ought to understand.

“We have just an amazing opportunity to make sure that they know not just America’s story but the incredible role that South Carolina played in making that story what it is,” Weaver said.

On Wednesday, the South Carolina Department of Education debuted a new curriculum in time for the birthday celebration.

It’s part of the state’s Palmetto Civics

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