The series will get a new audience when it airs on Amazon Prime
Ed Smalls’s Smalls Paradise was known for late nights and welcoming integrated audiences
Attorney and author Robert Rosen stresses the city’s contradictions
Robert Purvis dedicated his life to ending slavery and defending human rights
Exhibitions of her work are spread from the Gibbes Museum of Art to Middleton Place and the Edmondston-Alston House
And how Charleston influenced Tales of the City
Learn about her far-reaching legacy
The confection inspired a novel and an early sweet trend
Some formerly had been enslaved
The cornerstone was laid in January 1840
Learn the trailblazing story of Elizabeth Timothy
Mayor John Patrick Grace’s narrow victory signaled a change in power in the city
A century ago, Laura Bragg became the first woman in the nation to lead a publicly funded history museum
The tornadoes tore through Charleston in September 1938
He was elected to office despite rules forbidding Jews to serve
Jenkins's orphans march into history
How our port city was a leader in slowing the spread of diseases
Why Robert Smalls should be remembered as the Lowcountry’s Paul Revere
Take a crash course in Charleston history with this timeline of highlights covering 350-plus years
A Charleston-born historian on accelerating into the city’s future
The Avery Normal School is home to College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American History and...
Had King Charles I of England not been beheaded on January 30, 1649, our history would certainly have turned out...
How the day Vesey won his freedom changed the course of history
After the Civil War started, Harriet Tubman joined the Union Army and led a raid up the Combahee River between...
Before the South Carolina flag’s famous palmetto, there was a different tree that just may have made the Palmetto State...
Historically, the secret to surviving Charleston summers had been the same for centuries—either leave or somehow catch...
The 85th anniversary of the famous composer’s visit to Charleston to write the score of Porgy & Bess
