CHARLESTON, SC (WCIV) — It has been hidden inside the John C. Calhoun monument since 1858, and on Saturday, City of Charleston officials believe they have found it. Three months ago, excavation crews ...

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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.

CHARLESTON, SC (WCIV) — The spot that once held the monument of John C. Calhoun high in the sky is now nothing more than a bunch of rubble and dirt. Since Monday, crews have been working at Marion ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Among the items revealed by archeologists and City of Charleston officials contained in the “time capsule” or cornerstone included a cannonball, canvas banner believed to ...

It took months after the John C. Calhoun Monument in Charleston was demolished for workers to discover and dig up the long-suspected time capsule lodged in the statue's cornerstone. But Eric Poplin, ...

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. (WCBD) – Descendants of former United States Vice President and known defender of slavery, John C. Calhoun, are suing the City of Charleston over his statue being removed from Marion ...

NFL players DeAndre Hopkins and Deshaun Watson have joined in on a petition that's seeking Clemson University to remove John C. Calhoun's name from the honors college amid protests. The petition to ...

“By the death of Mr. Calhoun,” wrote Henry Clay, eulogizing his dead Senate colleague, “one of the brightest luminaries has been extinguished in the political firmament.” An even greater rival of John ...

John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850), the South Carolina senator who was slavery’s most vociferous defender (he called it a “positive good”) and whose espousal of state “nullification” of federal laws is ...