Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought to preserve slavery.

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes it’s that time of year again, when South Carolina and eight of the state’s 46 counties embarrassingly and dangerously close offices and give employees a day off ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall called for an end to Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina. Here, he shares emails from ...

Ron Chernow confirms the Twain's literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own.

Amboy, Calif., in the Mojave Desert, off the old Route 66.Credit...Andrew Moore Supported by By Aatish Taseer Photographs by ...

I will note that the figures some cite to say that ... Southerners in 1860 that were living in what would become the Confederate States, how many were actually slaveowners? When taking entire ...

Kent Greenfield is a professor of law at Boston College Law School. His final lecture of the semester is usually an upbeat summation and send-off, but not this year.

*Dedicated to the memory of Elchanan Kalmanson, 42 years of age and a father of five from the Judean Hills community of ...

The lasting fight for campus free speech in America might just be at public universities like UNC-Chapel Hill.

British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle greatly raised the prestige of the lowly detective story with his fictional alter ego Sherlock Holmes. One of Holmes’ most brilliant insights concerned something ...

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to ...