During a tour of Fort Sumter, history quite literally stuck out of the wall an artillery projectile, still lodged since the Civil War. It’s the kind of find that makes “living history” sound a bit too ...

Decades of tension over slavery and secession exploded in 1861 when Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter. Within months, the first major battle at Bull Run revealed just how bloody the conflict would ...

On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite ...