James Lutzweiler of Jamestown, N.C., has written two new self-published books about South Carolina and the primary cause of ...

In South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired ... South Carolinians were also asked if they could recall which American state was the first to secede from the Union at ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

South Carolina is erecting its first-ever statue of an African American in honor of a Civil War hero who escaped slavery and became a prominent political figure after pretending to be a ...

With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, author and former editor of The American Conservative Robert W. Merry picks up where he left off ...

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and ...

South Carolina, the soldier carrying the American flag fell. It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War. Charging with the 54th was Sgt. William Carney, who saw the colors fall.

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse ... a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War. But Robert Smalls isn’t just ...

When Rob Edwards started telling people he was writing a comic book about South Carolina Civil War hero Robert Smalls, he’d ...