Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Basil Watson calls it an honor to create a likeness of Smalls, the first Black person honored with a statue at the SC State House.

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston ...

Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

On Friday, Aug. 1, the Navy announced that Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Launch/ Recovery Equipment) Airman Jose Antonio Rivera ...

Michael Boulware Moore, his great-great-grandson and author of the book “ Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War ...

The U.S. Navy identified Airman Rivera Lynch as the sailor missing since July 28 from the USS George Washington.

In a news release, Navy officials said they have suspended the search for Airman Jose Antonio Rivera Lynch IV, from ...

These three history books are worth reading this summer, from a Northern Kentucky WWII soldier's letters to a book on William Howard Taft.

Beaufort police arrested two men after an apparent gunfight in a McDonald’s parking lot Wednesday night. The two suspects, a ...