South Carolina

The South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification was a direct challenge to federal authority. It declared two U.S. tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 as null and void within the state's borders. The ordinance argued that these tariffs favored Northern industries at the expense of Southern economies,…

<p><span class="deck"> At Cowpens, Dan Morgan showed how militia can be used. The formula worked in three later fights.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">At Fort Wagner the Negro soldier was asked to prove the worth of the “powerful black hand”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In 1860, Southern delegates bolted the Democratic convention at Charleston. An eyewitness describes the first giant step toward secession</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The paintings of</span> E. L. Henry: </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Courtly, gallant, handsome, and bold, John Laurens seemed the perfect citizen-soldier of the Revolution. But why did he have to seek death so assiduously?</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A newly discovered record of a proud Southern society that few people ever thought existed</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> In the quiet luxury of the historic district, a unique form of house plan—which goes back two hundred years—is a beguiling surprise for a visitor</span> </p>

<p>The United States had promised black soldiers that they would be paid as much as whites. Sergeant Walker believed that promise.</p>

<p><span class="deck">How the U.S. Air Force came to drop an A-bomb on South Carolina</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> RESEARCHERS PREPARE TO LOOK INSIDE THE LONG-BURIED CONFEDERATE SUBMARINE</span> </p>

<p>South Carolina severed ties with the Union not out of concern for states' rights but because of slavery</p>

<p>The famous photographs at Harvard, first published in <em>American Heritage</em> in 1977, are at the center of a difficult debate over who owns the images.</p>