South Carolina gala marks 150 years after secession, sparks debate on slavery. Dec. 20, 2010— -- It's been 150 years since South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union ahead of ...
The Robert Smalls statue will be the first monument to honor an African American person. ¹South Carolina will soon erect its first individual statue for a Black person on its Statehouse lawn in its ...
A 135-year-old riverfront home in Bluffton, South Carolina, hit the market last week for $4.9 million. The Pritchard House, as it’s known, is named for the property’s original owner, Dr. Paul ...
Children and adults read outside the barracks of Freedman's Village, Arlington, VA, in 1862. The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on ...
James Lutzweiler of Jamestown, N.C., has written two new self-published books about South Carolina and the primary cause of the coming of the Civil War. The first is “The Train that Caused the Civil ...
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My opinion of Lt. Col. Charles Didier Dreux, my 4th cousin, is that he was a traitor and seditionist who fought to preserve ...
It started as a mundane environmental cleanup along the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, and ended as a trip back in time to the last days of the Civil War. Archaeologists working alongside ...