South Carolina’s history is complex and enduring. From its role in the transatlantic slave trade to today’s heated debates over immigration policy, the state’s past continues to shape its politics and ...

Republican-led states fund Black history museums for tourism—even as Trump attacks them as “woke.” Is it strategy or hypocrisy?

In The Quarters and the Fields, Damian Pargas provides a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, he compares the ...

The annual Penn Center Heritage Day Parade in South Carolina draws hundreds to celebrate the Gullah Geechee people. But a new ...

Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States on 1860. Within weeks of his ...