Opposition to Confederate and proslavery memorials has a long history, even in a Deep South city like Charleston. In 1908 in White Point Garden, a bust of poet William Gilmore Simms, an outspoken ...

Charleston’s John C. Calhoun monument has its origins in a parlor at the corner of Meeting and Ann streets, the brainchild of three bored women looking to honor the loss of South Carolina’s ...

We built a monument to Denmark Vesey, the leader of a slave revolt in Charleston in 1822. Signs and plaques today describe feminists, civil rights activists and African-American leaders.

After Charleston, SC removed John C. Calhoun monument, city hasn’t decided plan for slavery advocate’s statue. A Los Angeles art exhibit wants to display it.

After Charleston, Confederate monuments fall roughly into three categories: The vast majority that have remained unchanged and largely unremarked upon.

Charleston’s History Commission was thrust into the spotlight Wednesday evening as Mayor John Tecklenburg tasked the group with providing a more comprehensive look at how the city’s monuments ...

Charleston removed its John C. Calhoun monument in 2020, but challenges persist in this Southern city about what to do with depictions of the slavery defender in the city’s own art collection.

Charleston, S.C., police announced Sunday that they had arrested two people accused of throwing paint on the Confederate Defenders of Charleston monument.

The FBI and Charleston police are investigating additional letters referencing racial violence in the city of Charleston, vandalism to a Marion Square monument and several bomb threats.

In Charleston, the battle over Civil War monuments is only beginning. But compared with other cities, it's not so much a fight as a polite debate. Mayor John Tecklenburg's latest strategy to amend ...

Learn about Civil War history at Fort Sumter National Monument is ranked #21 out of 28 things to do in Charleston, SC. See pictures and our review of Learn about Civil War history at Fort Sumter ...

Officials in Charleston announced Wednesday their intention to remove a statue of John C. Calhoun, an advocate for slavery in the early 1800s, from its downtown location despite a South Carolina ...