The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Oonly weeks into the second Trump administration, I wonder: am I, in fact, now afraid of my country? Are others in this great ...

The power of the movement, like that of the Confederacy, lies in its ability to mobilize disaffected segments of the ...

In August, Austin, the son of David and Elizabeth Ingall of Temperance, learned he was one of just 10 U.S. students selected for the annual Youth Leadership Team by the American Battlefield Trust.

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in ...

Cassie Premo Steele reflects on her time introducing a friend to SC by taking her to Saint Helena Island, and learning of the ...

April 2 is when some of the most important events in the world took place. Firstly, Pope John Paul II passed away at the age ...

The colossal sculpture on Mount Rushmore of four American presidents located in the Black Hills of South Dakota took nearly ...

Graceland, Civil War history, wildlife, country music, blues and Tennessee whisky are some of the things Tennessee is famous ...