A quarter of a millennium ago, “Swamp Fox” Francis Marion took on the British empire with a rag-tag group of part-time ...

It is entirely fitting that the US is so splintered on its semiquincentennial. Division, for the lion's share of its history, ...

Decades after a brazen art theft drove Merry White's father to despair, federal agents closed in on one last missing work.

Figures from the realms of politics to sports, from presiding over the Vatican to Temple Square, are among those who died in ...

A Confederate memorial to Robert E. Lee now sits in Charleston’s Marion Square, but questions have arisen about how the ...

CHARLESTON — In 2020, Marion Square said goodbye to one famous Southern leader and enslaver, John C. Calhoun. On Dec. 11, the downtown park welcomed another, Gen. Robert E. Lee. Five years after ...

Conservative figures have reignited one of their favorite culture wars: the removal of Confederate statues. Only this time, the statue MAGA is upset about is one that was removed more than five years ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him. For more than a century, this Black soldier from ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

The Midland school district rebranded Robert E. Lee High as Legacy High in 2020, part of a nationwide trend to distance ...