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The Southern states include both sprawling farmlands and bustling cities. Often called "the South," this area played a pivotal role in shaping the identity of the United States.

"The State of South Carolina," as an organized State, can speak only through the regular departments of the State Government. The act of secession ... to dissolve the Union -- to break up the ...

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded.

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in ... the first Southern state to secede from the Union, adding a palmetto tree to ...