It was a knee-vibrating, teeth-clenching, eye-scrunching sound. I tasted something acrid and felt grit on my tongue as smoke enveloped me. Several cannons had just fired 12-pound balls. My goal had ...

Though the Civil War was over 150 years ago, the social fabric of the United States still suffers from the country’s former divisions. Cultural and political values are split between the so-called ...

The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time. In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding Charleston, became a flash point in the tensions between North ...

More than two dozen civilians were killed on Monday after a motorised army paraglider dropped bombs from above.