A 135-year-old riverfront home in Bluffton, South Carolina, hit the market last week for $4.9 million.

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

Carter Woodson was a tireless promoter of Black culture who planted seeds for what became Black History Month a century ago ...

Virginia took another decisive step in its ongoing reckoning with its Confederate past as the House of Delegates in a bipartisan move approved legislation to strip tax-exempt status from organizations ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist who ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

However, his short fuse and alcoholism eventually wrecked his own life and brought disaster for Texas during the Civil War ... s large estate in western South Carolina in 1816.