In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

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, ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

CHARLES SUMNER: Conscience of a Nation, by Zaakir Tameez A strange, special fate belongs to those famous Americans known not for what they did but for what was done to them.

Description. Author Stephen Puleo discussed the career and life of abolitionist politician Charles Sumner, who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874.

Stephen Puleo, The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union, St. Martin’s Press, 2024. Charles Sumner (1811-1874), like most Radical Republicans and ...

Sumner deserves to be remembered for much more than being the victim of Brooks’s assault, argues Zaakir Tameez in his engrossing biography “Charles Sumner: The Conscience of a Nation.” Mr ...

Zaakir Tameez is the author of “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation,” to be released on June 3. On May 13, a man who made death threats against Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) for her foreign ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...