A new statue honoring Civil War hero and former congressman Robert Smalls will become the first monument of an individual African American on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. Artist Basil Watson ...

CLEVELAND — A figure in Northeast Ohio's Civil War history will be commemorated with a statue on Cleveland's Public Square -- though he's not the typical war hero you'd expect. The Soldiers' and ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship ...

Debates are happening across America on what to do about statues and monuments to the confederacy. There are historic protections for many of those statues, meaning removal isn’t simple. Knowing that, ...

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship. Eventually, he would become a top ...