Exhibits at Fort Sumter help explain the tensions that led South Carolina to be the first state to secede the union. Visitors can also see the flag Major General Robert Anderson raised there in 1865 ...

The iconic Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired, may have survived the famous 19th century battery, but experts warned it could now disappear under the waves ...

Francis Scott Key awoke aboard a British warship after watching the terrifying 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry — and, by dawn's early light, was stunned to find that our flag was still there ...

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...

Here we needn’t cite the full Fort Sumter; instead, suppose that the Palmetto State simply pulled the American flag down from its state capitol. How now would the Biden administration react?

Gov. Eric Holcomb is directing the flags in Lake and Newton counties be lowered to half-staff Friday to honor two community ...

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One of the study’s leaders, Michael Allen, a community partnership specialist for Fort Sumter National Monument and Charles ... and the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina ...

From here, it’s just a short ferry ride to Fort Sumter, where the first shots of ... The site of American Flag flying over the fort after a 25-hour gun battle here inspired Francis Scott Key ...

The biggest recent example of this is the story about the Supreme Court justice’s wife who didn’t understand that flying the ...