Ferries to Fort Sumter ceased when the federal government shutdown. A Charleston tour company is paying to keep the site open. Other national parks are, too.

The South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust and American Battlefield Trust have commissioned artist Dale Watson to ...

From World War II to Vietnam, the U.S.S. Yorktown now sits in Charleston Harbor, preserving the history of our nation’s bravest. In this chapter of haunted history, hear stories of the American ...

The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was a pivotal moment in American history, leading to Southern secession and the Civil ...

In the next 56 minutes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the Civil War, slavery, and of Frederick Douglas, offered a ...

The final chapter of the Gainesville city rivalry, and a monster showdown at Columbia. Those games and more highlight the ...

Stories from America’s military forts are often omitted from textbooks. Once serving as the country’s first line of defense, ...

Photography has come a long way since the first ever photo saw the light of day. We've gone from painstakingly exposing metal ...

American history stretches back thousands of years through indigenous civilizations, then layers in centuries of colonial ...

It’s impossible to enter any cemetery in Kendall County and not find the graves of veterans of virtually every war in the ...

On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division and a warning to ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division ...