Authorities are investigating after a historical marker in Florence was damaged for the third time in 17 years.ABC 15 spoke ...

On a roadtrip through sleepy towns and coastal waterways, Tayari Jones unveils a history more relevant than ever.

The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

An American man was excited to try some South African KFC and was blown away by how the food tasted. The man visited one of the branches and ordered the different items he couldn't have back in the US ...

In just a few months since President Donald Trump took office, his administration has cut thousands of federal jobs, leaving American workers unemployed and essential federal work unfinished.

A new book will focus on South Carolina's first African American female physician. Authors Dr. Walter B. Curry, Beverly Aiken-Muhammad and Anusha Ghosh present the narrative of Dr. Matilda Evans ...

The director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture left his post Friday. Kevin Young had led the groundbreaking Washington, D.C., institution since 2021. His resignation ...

That understanding includes an unvarnished view of the purpose of Confederate monuments. “For African Americans these monuments were really created as examples of white supremacy — to remind people of ...

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