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 & Present
Palmetto Past & Present: South Carolina’s Rosa Parks
by Mark Powell
The story of Sarah Mae Flemming......
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 and Present: The Happy January of 1781
by Mark Powell
South Carolina battle was a major turning point in the American Revolution......
Palmetto Past & Present: South Carolina’s Gift To Christmas
by Mark Powell
The story of the man behind those ubiquitous red flowers......
Palmetto Past & Present: How Columbia Became the Confederacy’s Currency Capital
by Mark Powell
Fire up the presses!...
Palmetto Past & Present: Happy (Early) Thanksgiving
by Mark Powell
Early South Carolina settlers didn't wait til' November to give thanks......
Palmetto Past & Present: Remembering The Stono Rebellion
by Mark Powell
The story of the largest slave rebellion in the South before the Revolutionary War......