In South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, a new poll reveals that almost half of its residents believe a second civil war could be on the horizon — a stark indicator of the ...
A new statue honoring Civil War hero and former congressman Robert Smalls will become the first monument of an individual African American on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. Artist Basil Watson ...
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 ...
South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship ...
On Nov. 22, 1860, nearly 3,000 local citizens gathered at "Magazine Hill" to endorse resolutions and an ordinance for South Carolina's secession from the Union, where many in attendance wore ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary, each week WIS will be exploring a new place around the Palmetto State that showcases the rich history of South Carolina. This week, we ...
In articles and books, he wrote about the rapid racial, political and economic changes that transformed his state — and the ...