Inauguration Day, March 4, 1861. On a brilliantly sunny day in Washington, arguably the biggest moment of Mary Todd Lincoln’s ...

Fort Sumter sat on an artificial island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor. It was unfinished. Less than half its guns were in ...

April 12 is a date that repeatedly surfaces at turning points in human history. Across continents and centuries, it marks imperial upheavals, scientific triumphs, political transformations, cultural ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, marking the start of the Civil War. More than 4,000 shots were fired over 34 hours before ...

If you think the country is hopelessly divided now, you should’ve seen us 165 years ago today. At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, troops on James Island fired a shell high over Fort Sumter, its explosion ...

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In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Cadets from The Citadel opened fire on a Union ship bound for Fort Sumter on this date 164 years ago, marking what some might call the unofficial first shots of the Civil War ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division ...

This column raises and answers three questions crucial to America’s political future. First, what are the consequences, intended and otherwise, of the blatant murder of Charlie Kirk? Second, is the ...