We went to Fort Sumter expecting a history lesson. Instead, we got a metal detector meltdown and a piece of the past that still smells like gunpowder and judgment.

Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, ...

On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division and a warning to ...