RICHMOND — In a cavernous gallery of the Valentine museum filled with marble busts and giant images of maps, Bill Martin gestured at a humble 1950s school history textbook in a display case. “This is ...
Men and women gathered in Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C., around Christmastime in 1860. On Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to vote to leave the Union. Credit - Corbis via Getty ...