He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s ...

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

"These slaveowners, these rebels, have led the South into the Civil War. They're responsible for ... How do you rebuild Charleston, South Carolina? How do you rebuild Richmond?

To experience one of the most significant sites in America's long and storied history, tourists should take a trip to South ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a ...

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.

With good-looking cities and towns, sandy beaches and Lowcountry locales, South Carolina is home to ... across the country have taken notice. Civil War history buffs can tour Fort Sumter in ...

He spent a decade in the US House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then put up a valiant but doomed fight when racists returned ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a ...

location and funding for a monument that will be erected on the lawn of the South Carolina State House Sarah Kuta A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and ...