Charles Pinckney National Historic Site

Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War upon Federal troops at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The first shot of the...

Charles Pinckney was a governor of South Carolina, a Congressman, a Senator Thomas Jefferson's ambassador to Spain, and, as historians generally ag...

When the American Civil War finally erupted in Charleston Harbor, it was the result of a half-century of growing sectionalism. Underlying all the e...

On June 28, 1776, nine British Royal Navy warships entered Charleston Harbor in an attempt to capture one of the wealthiest cities in the ''New Wor...

Discover the United States National Park Service sites! Throughout the United States there are almost 400 National Parks, Battlefields, Recreation ...

At over two-dozen national parks, the American Revolution awaits discovery. The essays in this handbook are a tool in the process of rediscovering ...