Palmetto Past & Present: Heroism, Human Shields And The Immortal 600
"It's easy to romanticize the Civil War as a chivalrous affair, the final swords and roses struggle of a bygone age. The reality was anything...
Palmetto Past and Present
Palmetto Past & Present: The Sad Saga Of A South Carolina Nazi Sympathizer
by Mark Powell
Robert Henry Best's ignominious place in American history began and ended in the Palmetto State......
Palmetto Past & Present: Fort Sumter’s Two Surrenders
by Mark Powell
How the bluster of a hotheaded South Carolina "colonel" nearly extended the first engagement in the War Between the States....
Palmetto Past & Present: Lafayette Is In The House!
by Mark Powell
A victory lap for the ages....
Palmetto Past & Present: How Columbia Became the Confederacy’s Currency Capital
by Mark Powell
Fire up the presses!...
Palmetto Past & Present: Bully Brooks
by Mark Powell
Political violence in America is nothing new, even if its methods have changed......
Palmetto Past & Present: The Incredible Francis Cardozo
by Mark Powell
The remarkable tale of America's first black state elected official ......
Palmetto Past & Present: A VIP Arrives In South Carolina
by Mark Powell
"The hero of two worlds ..."...
Palmetto Past & Present: South Carolina’s ‘Buckeye Rebel’
by Mark Powell
The story of Roswell Sabin Ripley ......
Palmetto Past & Present: The South Carolina Woman Who Saved Mount Vernon
by Mark Powell
Ann Pamela Cunningham isn’t a household name ... but maybe she should be....