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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation Zaakir Tameez. Holt, $35.99 (640p) ISBN 978-1-250-36255-1 ...

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

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

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser proposes defunding the move of the District of Columbia Archives to the University of the District ...

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Campbell’s focus is far from skirmishes but rather ...