Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how examining plantation records and market prices deepens our understanding of a devastating chapter in American history. South Carolina’s Battery Wagner no ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Black Civil War re-enactors are heading to Morris Island in Charleston Harbor to mark the anniversary of the assault by the black 54th Massachusetts on the Confederate fort ...

Civil War reenactors Calvin Osborne, center, and Anthony Jones, left, both of Washington, D.C., and Terry James of Florence stand in formation as they observe the anniversary of Black Union soldiers ...

South Carolina’s Battery Wagner no longer exists—thanks to beach erosion and the ceaseless movement of the waters of Charleston harbor. It disappeared 20 years after it had momentarily become one of ...