CHARLESTON, SC (WCIV) — A piece of Charleston history was unveiled today as archeologists opened the John C. Calhoun cornerstone. The cornerstone was a commemoration to the controversial South ...

History has dubbed Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun “the great triumvirate” and “the immortal trio,” the congressional powerhouses of the era between the Founding and the Civil War. However ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Charleston History Commission held a meeting on the future of the John C. Calhoun statue in Marion Square. During the meeting, they did not make any final decisions on ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Charleston's History Commission has approved wording of a proposed plaque some city leaders want added to the statue of John C. Calhoun in Marion Square. The plaque is ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Charleston History Commission is holding meeting on the future of the John C. Calhoun statue in Marion Square. That meeting will take place on Wednesday, November 1.

A controversial statue of John Calhoun, an Irish American and slavery advocate who served as Vice President of the United States during the 1800s, has been removed in Charleston, South Carolina. John ...

History remembers South Carolina's John C. Calhoun as the man who started the Civil War, even though he died a decade before the fighting began. A rabid defender of slavery, Calhoun, 1782-1850, was an ...

After sitting in storage for over a year, Charleston's statue of John C. Calhoun may be headed to the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia. City of Charleston and museum officials have worked out ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - History buffs celebrated the long-anticipated discovery of what appears to be a time capsule buried under the base of the monument to John C. Calhoun in downtown Charleston.

Mitch McConnell’s claim that “the filibuster is the essence of the Senate” has been tossed aside by his opponents as bad history, violently inconsistent with how Jefferson, Hamilton or Madison aimed ...