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

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

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

The trailblazing abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad will be posthumously commissioned as a one-star ...

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

To experience one of the most significant sites in America's long and storied history, tourists should take a trip to South ...

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.

The Geneva Conventions recently marked their 75th anniversary, yet the rules of war are being widely violated. NPR’s Greg ...

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 ...

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