Palmetto Past & Present: Gilbert Bates’ Excellent Adventure
"I can carry that flag myself from the Mississippi River all over the rebel states, alone and unarmed, too..."...
Civil War
Palmetto Past & Present: The Great Charleston Fire
by Mark Powell
“No tongue can describe, no pen portray the awfulness of the scene..."...
Palmetto Past & Present: Got Your Thanksgiving Chicken Pie Ready?
by Mark Powell
A culinary connection......
From Abe Lincoln To Charlie Kirk: The Ugly History Of Celebrating Death
by Mark Powell
"Perhaps this is to be expected from a generation that increasingly views murder as an acceptable avenue for silencing those with opposing views..."...
Palmetto Past & Present: Heroism, Human Shields And The Immortal 600
by Mark Powell
"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: 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: 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: The South Carolina Woman Who Saved Mount Vernon
by Mark Powell
Ann Pamela Cunningham isn’t a household name ... but maybe she should be....