The struggle of today is not altogether for today – it is for a vast future also.” – Abraham Lincoln The American Civil War ...

As a student of American history, I believe there are some very important heroes who have never received the acknowledgement and acclaim they deserve. Charles Sumner from Massachusetts is one of those ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

”Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation,” By Zaakir Tameez. Publisher: Holt, 629 pages. $29.59. John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Stephen Puleo discussed how Congress managed the issue of slavery historically and Charles Sumner's anti-slavery speech in the U.S. Congress ...

[Full entry reads: "Photograph of model of Charles Sumner, designed and executed by Johnson M. Mundy, for the prize exhibition of Sumner models in Boston."] Rochester Academy of Art. (Incorporated ...