On this day in 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority. He closed his letter with the ...

The Union was under siege. South Carolinian firebreathers were thundering defiance against federal law and federal authority, threatening armed resistance and touting each state’s right to nullify ...

In 1832, blaming its struggling economy on supposedly high tariffs, South Carolina declared that the existing federal import levies would no longer apply to foreign goods landed in the state, ...

COLUMBIA — The message was pretty simple. It was written in all-capitalized white letters on blue shirts: "NULLIFY." About 50 people, many of them wearing those shirts, gathered in the S.C. Statehouse ...

If you’ve been downtown, you’ve undoubtedly seen him, the dark silhouette of a cloaked figure looming 80-feet over the Holy City skyline and facing the busy street that bears his name: John C. Calhoun ...