South Carolina

Blue and shades of gray: Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on the role of slaveryAt South Carolina's Secession Gala, men in frock coats and militia uniforms and women in hoopskirts will sip mint juleps as a band called Unreconstructed plays "Dixie." ...

20 Years Ago Dream weaver On Christmas Day 1990, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, 35, demonstrates the workings of his new creation, the World Wide Web, over the Internet. 120 Years Ago Melee Massacre As U.S. troops attempt to disarm a band ...

Beautiful, peaceful South Carolina entered the union as the eighth state on May 23, 1788. South Carolina is well known as the first state to have seceded from the Union in 1860, but one of the events that lead up to South ...

To understand the secessionist movement in the south you need to know that the seeds for this movement were sown during the writing of the Constitution and that the one bone of contention was between Thomas Jefferson , a Virginian, and the ...

Most people living in the southeastern United States quite often overlook some great travel destinations right in their own backyards. The Native Americans used to come to Hilton Head Island to eat and enjoy shellfish and there is still a huge sea ...

Before the Europeans started arriving in the 16th century, some 30 native tribes lived on the land that now comprises South Carolina. A decade later, they abandoned it in favor of St. Augustine, Florida, and South Carolina was left to the native ...

North Carolina lies on the Atlantic Ocean and is bordered by Virginia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Ranges of the Appalachian Mountains, including the Great Smoky Mountains, are in the west; the Blue Ridge Mountains are in the east. A provincial congress in ...

U.S. state flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with a white Sabal palmetto in the centre and a white crescent in the upper hoist corner.. On September 13, 1775, a blue flag with a white crescent in its upper hoist ...

Several military campaigns were fought in South Carolina during the American Revolution. South Carolina is a leader in U.S. textile manufacturing and has a large industrial base. The Blue Ridge Mountain province dominates the northwestern corner of the state, covering about 2 ...

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will ...

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