Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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American Civil War: Maps, Battlefields, and Generals
The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...
SC could expand legal protections for Confederate monuments unrelated to war
State lawmaker wants to add security for Confederate monuments not just related to the Civil War. It comes as South Carolina ...
'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled - review
In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.
The US is killing someone by firing squad for the first time in 15 years. Here’s a look at the history
As South Carolina plans to carry our the first firing squad execution in 15 years in the United States, Professor Deborah ...
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New Civil War research more fully details deaths in South, Georgia
In the 160 years since, researchers have repeatedly sought to quantify the Civil War’s staggering death ... percentage terms behind Louisiana and South Carolina. About 4 million Black enslaved ...
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Review: In ‘Lincoln’s Peace,’ Michael Vorenberg searches for an end date of the Civil War
In September 1876, in Ellenton, South Carolina, the U.S. Army fought a ... that many historians consider part and parcel of the Civil War, continued until the 1890s. Vorenberg recognizes that ...