The South Carolina Capitol grounds will soon include a statue of Robert Smalls, a formerly enslaved Civil War hero, among the statues of five white men, most with ties to the Civil War or Jim Crow.

Previously found war relics Relics from the Civil War have been discovered in South Carolina before. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew unearthed Civil War cannonballs from the sand on Folly Beach.

A climax came in 1856, when South Carolina Rep. Preston Brooks beat Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts to a bloody pulp on the Senate floor — a gruesome harbinger of the greater violence to come.

Anew Winthrop University poll found 47 percent of South Carolinians believe a second civil war likely. It's a stark indicator of growing division and unrest.

South Carolina's history is deeply woven into the fabric of the United States, spanning from the early colonial period through the American Revolution and into the turbulence of the Civil War.

A cleanup of toxic waste in a South Carolina river netted something positive: historic artifacts. In the river's debris, weapons from the Civil War were found. The Congee River was hiding ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal court today ordered South Carolina to redraw its 2021 enacted congressional map, ruling that a district anchored in Charleston County is a racial gerrymander. The case was ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of Civil War weapons from South Carolina’s Congaree River. Cannonballs, artillery shells and other items have been lurking in the waterway since February ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

South Carolina has had trouble securing enough lethal injection drugs for executions. So it has turned to an old form of killing: the firing squad, last used in the Civil War.

What stopped the Civil War? Johnston's surrender was the largest one in the war, giving up almost 90,000 Confederate soldiers in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Following the road to Civil War through Massachusetts and South Carolina Robert W. Merry’s “Decade of Disunion” shows how the two states figured prominently at nearly every stage of America ...