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

A special committee has until January 15 to finalize the design, location and funding for a monument that will be erected on the lawn of the South Carolina State House ...

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

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 ...

During the Civil War, Robert Smalls, a native of the Gullah Geechee Corridor city of Beaufort, South Carolina, donned a Confederate uniform to steal an enslaver’s ship. Smalls sailed his ...

For decades, historians have cobbled together clues. But thanks to a newly released set of census records spanning three ...

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 ...

then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South Carolina State House grounds. A statue of Robert ...