This photo in the Library of Congress shows the “remains of the wooden steamboat Celt wrecked along Bowman’s Jetty,” in Charleston Harbor, according to the SC Marine Researcher Division. The Celt is ...

"The First Eight" explores the pivotal journey of the state's first Black congressmen who served after the Civil War.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - 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 ...

A new statue honoring Civil War hero and former congressman Robert Smalls will become the first monument of an individual African American on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. Artist Basil Watson ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Gov. Henry McMaster placed his signature Thursday on a bill that will celebrate a South Carolina Civil War hero on the State House grounds. A ceremonial bill signing for a ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...