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Secretary of War, Vice President, Secretary of State, and U.S. Senator South Carolina's most storied national politician, John C. Calhoun served as secretary of war, vice president, secretary of ...
He found it in a dusty cabinet in his predecessor's office at John C. Calhoun Elementary in Calhoun ... underfunded schools from the 2005 PBS documentary "Corridor of Shame," or the Dillon ...
Clemson University is removing former U.S. vice president and outspoken white supremacist John C. Calhoun's name from the school's honors college following a petition embraced by NFL stars DeAndre ...
John C. Calhoun was a zealous defender of slavery. His name has lately been stripped from a residential college at Yale (his alma mater) and from a lake in Minnesota named in his honor when he was ...
In writing about Yale University's decision to rename its Calhoun College, he said people needed to take into account the different standards of the times in which John C. Calhoun lived.
Savannah’s city council has decided to remove the name of slavery advocate and former Vice President John C. Calhoun from the city’s historic square. The name of the city square will be ...
A statue of John C. Calhoun, a staunch defender of slavery and former U.S. vice president, was coming down Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina, the latest memorial of a historical figure with ...
Yale University said Wednesday it has decided to keep the name of a residential college named for 19th-century alumnus and ardent supporter of slavery John C. Calhoun but will eliminate the title ...