In Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, the first full-length biography of Sumner in more than two generations, the writer Zaakir Tameez resuscitates his subject’s reputation as a largely derided ...

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Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Charles Sumner’s unswerving commitment to racial justice was the defining feature of his legislative career. First ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would survive its own design flaws. Yet the Constitution, its blueprint, has proved ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery. Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

SUDBURY — Author and historian Stephen Puleo is set to discuss his new book, “The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union,” next month at the Goodnow Library, ...

THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union. By Stephen Puleo. St. Martin’s Press. 464 pages. $32. When Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts died in Washington, ...

Southern Chivalry: The caning of Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In May 1856, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner rose on the Senate floor to denounce the law that opened ...

Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a name for himself as an advocate of liberal causes. His outspoken support of abolition and the rights of emancipated blacks, and his calls for punishment ...