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

Promotional material for the event was covered in imagery of poppies, long recognized as a symbol of sacrifice in World War I. But Columbia organizers offensively insisted that “the poppy ...

SEATTLE — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil ... war. In 2016, a volunteer ...

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

Cities like Charleston and Columbia ... people. South Carolina’s history is marked by its transitions from colonial prosperity to revolutionary struggle, and from Civil War devastation to ...

Approximately 1,500 Shelby County men fought in the Civil War. Tuesday night, in light of America’s celebration for those who ...

Columbia University activists are planning a protest of Veterans Day — which organizers want to “reclaim” from the “Israel-US war machine” in the name of Palestinians killed in Gaza.

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

In Maury County, the second Veterans Day parade in the past 20 years was held in Columbia. Best of all: the parade was “grand marshaled” by a 101-year-old World War II veteran. “ ...

a man who escaped slavery to become a Civil War hero and a lawmaker. It will be the first monument to an individual Black figure at the South Carolina State House in Columbia, reports the ...

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 ...