Civil War: A State Divided by Conflict. After the Revolution, South Carolina remained a key state in the growing United States, but the legacy of slavery continued to shape its society and politics.

President Donald Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. In South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

¹South Carolina will soon erect its first individual statue for a Black person on its Statehouse lawn in its capital, Columbia. During the Civil War, Robert Smalls, a native of the Gullah Geechee ...

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.

Robert Smalls made headlines when he commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War. Library of Congress. South Carolina plans to erect a statue honoring Robert Smalls, a man who escaped ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic book. By Matt White Published Apr 24, 2025 5:40 PM EDT ...