On Nov. 22, 1860, nearly 3,000 local citizens gathered at "Magazine Hill" to endorse resolutions and an ordinance for South ...

The first assault against national unity came not from South Carolina's declaration of secession in 1861, but many years earlier, when frontier farmers rebelled against a federal tax on whiskey, a ...

A living historian brings the past to life for contemporary Americans by portraying historical figures at public events such as our long-defunct Heritage Days festival. Such a person visited my ...

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. Charleston has always been a city that stands for something--a defiant port, a rebellion's ...

The writer of a Jan. 2 letter to the editor said secession was the cause of the Civil War. That’s like saying “treason was the cause of treason.” In fact, Southern states seceded from the Union ...

The first assault against national unity came not from South Carolina's declaration of secession in 1861 but many years earlier when frontier farmers rebelled against a federal tax on whiskey, a ...