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.

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

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.

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship. Eventually, he would become a top ...

Jose Antonio Rivera Lynch IV was declared deceased after the Navy carried out a 45-hour search in the Timor Sea for the ...

Navy officials said they have suspended the search for Airman Jose Antonio Rivera Lynch IV, from Middleburg, Florida.

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

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