During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

The SC Department of Archives and History (SCDAH) administers the States’s historical marker program which was established in 1936, and is one of the oldest in the United States. This ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

In late October, Marion “Rollen” Chalmers stood next to a rice field ringed by pines and palm trees. He pointed out roseate ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections shares details after carrying out the execution of of Marion Bowman Jr., the ...

Speaking of Winston-Salem, anybody out there remember a puffing billboard? If I remember correctly, it was in a curve near N.C. Baptist Hospital, visible primarily from the eastbound lanes. It ...

An early morning fire destroyed a church south of Plantersville whose history predates the Civil War. The Union Community Church went up in flames Sunday Jan. 26. Despite the efforts of volunteer ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A former detention deputy for the Marion County Sheriff's Office is taking legal action, claiming she was wrongfully terminated. A new lawsuit names Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal ...

MARION — Activist JoAnne Bland, the youngest person to be arrested during the civil rights movement, spoke to about 200 Southern Illinoisans about the importance of honoring history and enacting ...

Three IDF soldiers were moderately injured, and seven others sustained light injuries on Wednesday night when a weapon exploded during a training exercise at the Engineering Corps Training Base in ...

By Sara Ruberg A South Carolina jail where at least 60 people ... Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Most of the nearly 1,000 people in the ...

Marion Jones/Instagram Olympic athlete Marion Jones is no longer running away from her past. The former track-and-field star — who won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Sydney ...