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Will South Carolina Spend Millions on a Fake Flag?
After the Charleston shootings, South Carolina removed the copy of a Civil War battle flag from the statehouse grounds. And that was just the beginning of this tangled tale. By Kevin M. Levin.
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How We Nearly Lost the South's Largest Old-Growth Floodplain Forest
The establishment of Congaree National Park in South Carolina represents one of the most important conservation victories in the eastern U.S.
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63,756 Reasons Racism Is Still Alive in South Carolina
That’s the number of minority registered voters who could be blocked from the polls by the state’s new voter ID law.
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Gang member kills South Carolina cop, calls mother, commits suicide
A self-described gang member killed a South Carolina police officer on Friday, then called his own mother before turning the gun on himself, police said. The suspect committed suicide moments after firing on officers who were trying to serve him with an arrest warrant at a house in Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller told reporters. Miller said the names of the officer and the suspect would not be released pending notification of the families.
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K Troop
The Untold Story of the Eradication of the Original Ku Klux Klan. By Matthew Pearl.
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Tropical storm forming in Atlantic cuts path toward South Carolina
The first tropical storm to threaten the United States this year is expected to slam into the coast of South Carolina during the Memorial Day weekend, bringing heavy rain and strong winds, federal officials said on Saturday.
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Watching My South Fall for Donald Trump
His popularity has revealed a dark truth about the region.
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Sherman's March Through the Carolinas
Sherman's March Through the Carolinas Civil War historians James McPherson, John Marszalek and Harold Holzer discuss Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s campaign through the Carolinas, which followed after his famed “March to the Sea” through Georgia the previous year. They compared General Sherman’s goals for each operation and the different logistical hurdles his army faced.
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Hero firefighter stopped school massacre by tackling gunman
A volunteer firefighter stopped a teenager who shot two students and a teacher outside a South Carolina primary school after killing his father at their home, authorities said. Anderson County Sheriff John Skipper said the shooter was apprehended Wednesday afternoon outside rural Townville Elementary School before he could get inside the building. Firefighter Jamie Brock, a 30-year veteran of the Townville Volunteer Fire Department down the road from the school, “just took him down,” the sheriff said.
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South Carolina Governor Orders Evacuation Ahead of Hurricane
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley declared a state of emergency on Tuesday and ordered an evacuation of more than a million people in coastal areas starting Wednesday afternoon in anticipation of Hurricane Matthew.
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Hurricane Matthew Hits the Carolinas in Pictures
A Charleston resident kayaks down a flooded Rutledge Avenue after Hurricane Matthew hit Charleston, South Carolina.
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Hurricane Matthew Unearths Civil War Cannonballs on US Beach
A bomb squad is called to a beach in South Carolina after civil war cannonballs appear in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials say.
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Man confesses to killing at least seven after woman found chained in container
A South Carolina man killed at least seven people in a hidden crime spree that lasted more than a decade and only was uncovered when police rescued a woman chained at the neck in a storage container, authorities said Saturday. Todd Kohlhepp accepted responsibility for an unsolved 13-year-old massacre one day before the 13th anniversary of the deaths that stumped authorities, said Sheriff Chuck Wright, first elected a year after the murders.
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In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past
The compulsion to engage the Charleston area’s complex history as a slave-trading center was, for the writer, a visceral thing, akin to the urge to revisit a crime scene.
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This teacher raised enough money to buy new bikes for each student in her school
Students jumped with joy, hugged one another and squealed with delight as teachers at their South Carolina elementary school revealed hundreds of custom-made bicycles beneath parachutes normally used for P.E. class. The new set of wheels Thursday came courtesy of first-grade teacher Katie Blomquist. "I made a really conscious effort to watch their faces and let it soak in and imprint in my brain when those tarps went up," she told TODAY. "It was that moment I've been waiting for seven months."
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Disunion: ‘Upon the Points of Our Swords’
For months, a single question had preoccupied the men of Fort Sumter’s beleaguered Union garrison, from their commander down to the lowliest private: what would the Lincoln administration do?
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Disunion: Abner Doubleday Finds a Potato
On the last day of peace, Capt. Abner Doubleday found a potato. It had been kicked into a corner and stepped on, but was not too badly squashed, so he dusted it off as best he could and stowed it away for safekeeping.
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Disunion: The Fall of Satan’s Kingdom
Since the first shells burst over Ft. Sumter in the early morning of April 12, 1861, irrevocably igniting the Civil War, the Lincoln administration longed for an opportunity to retake Charleston.
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Disunion: Surrender
Only Capt. Abner Doubleday seemed irked that the battle was over.
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Disunion: When Old Glory Returned to Fort Sumter
On the evening of April 13, 1865, the steamship Oceanus arrived in Charleston, S.C., after a three-day trip from New York City.
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