Descendants of people enslaved at the site are grappling with its complicated history while also honoring the region’s rich culture Major Pierce Butler, a U.S. senator representing South ...

Pvt. Lucien Weakley’s weathered headstone stands beneath a towering magnolia tree that is surrounded by the graves of thousands of other Confederate soldiers in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

On the northern end of Ossabaw Island, three former slave cabins sit in a perfect row—remains of a plantation that predates the Revolutionary War. Dan Elliott stands next to the cabins one ...

At the McLeod Plantation Historic Site, visitors can learn important information about Gullah and Geechee heritage. This plantation was established in 1851, and by 1860, it was home to 74 enslaved ...

Historians review the problems of re-building a region destroyed by four years of bitter war. "This is a white man's government" "We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as ...