When he first moved to Montgomery, it didn’t have a single marker that mentioned “slavery”, yet had 59 monuments to the Confederacy and three high schools named for its war generals and soldiers. This ...

On this day in 1861, delegates from six states that had seceded from the Union met in Montgomery, Ala., to establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. Five days ...

When news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency reached South Carolina on the morning of Nov. 8, 1860, joyful Charlestonians took to the streets. Whites erected liberty poles near the ...

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Editor’s Note: Gordon Rhea is an attorney based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and an author of books on the history of the Civil War. He has lectured on military history at the U.S. Army Training ...

A statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, lies on the ground in Richmond after protesters pulled it down on Wednesday. (Parker Michels-Boyce/AFP/Getty Images) It should have happened ...

IN one of Mr. W. E. Henley’s hospital poems, a sailor, “ set at euchre on his elbow,” tells in twenty lines what he saw from the wharf at Charleston when he was there off a blockade runner, near the ...