If it were, say, just a decade ago, cachet and power would be conferred on Skydance founder and CEO David Ellison, the ...

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

The immortal catalogue of national crimes just got one entry fatter.

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

The National Park Service has added Sumner Hall, located at 206 S. Queen St., to its Reconstruction Era National Historic ...

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

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, ...

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It was a moment that would change history — one of the rare occurrences when a fierce debate between senators moves beyond ...

Charles Sumner, the abolitionist and senator, was their contemporary—yet many Americans today associate his name with a single historical moment: when Preston Brooks, the representative from ...

A stolen daughter, Charles Sumner’s crusade, the legend of an outlaw queen and more.

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