Basil Watson calls it an honor to create a likeness of Smalls, the first Black person honored with a statue at the SC State House.

In July, the SCDA recorded 238 inspections of restaurants, schools, stores and other food establishments in Beaufort County.

Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

Beaufort police arrested two men after an apparent gunfight in a McDonald’s parking lot Wednesday night. The two suspects, a 24-year-old Beaufort man and 35-year-old Burton man, were each charged with ...

Robert Smalls was a historic South Carolina lawmaker who escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship.

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and ...

These three history books are worth reading this summer, from a Northern Kentucky WWII soldier's letters to a book on William Howard Taft.

Forty-five-year-old Aaron Tobias Polkey is unlike some members of his generation who grew up in Charleston but left to seek ...

Michael Boulware Moore, his great-great-grandson and author of the book “ Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War ...

More than a century after his death, Robert Smalls, a towering figure in American history who rose from slavery to become a Civil War hero and influential polit ...