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

DECADE OF DISUNION: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War. By Robert W. Merry. Simon and Schuster.

South Carolina's history is deeply woven into the fabric of the United States, spanning from the early colonial period through the American Revolution and into the turbulence of the Civil War.

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 ...

South Carolina is erecting its first-ever statue of an African American in honor of a Civil War hero who escaped slavery and became a prominent political figure after pretending to be a ...

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

Sudan's civil war has displaced 10 million citizens. Here are profiles of two young people from the most vulnerable groups: ...

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.

symbolic of violence in South Carolina after the Civil War. “Our exhibits are basically centered around the collection pieces that we have. So one of the key pieces in the exhibit is a pew that ...

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 ...

He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina's constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil ...