Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Puleo's book is a biography of Charles Sumner, a U.S. senator who was a prominent voice in the antislavery movement ahead of ...

As tensions over slavery reached a boiling point, Senator Charles Sumner was brutally caned by Preston Brooks after delivering his speech, The Crime Against Kansas. This event pushed John Brown into ...

Progressives have created the fiction in which the US Constitution “is what the Supreme Court says it is.” In reality, the ...

Charles Sumner Elementary’s Sumner Stars (“always respectful, responsible and ready to learn”) for November, first row, from ...

The president of Harvard made an unjust decision in 1890, against his own directives, that silently smoothed the path for multitudes of much worse injustices to come – injustices that tore through the ...

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

The actor has a striking house on top of a cliff in this area named "the classic fairytale village" in the United States.

The presidential biographer on tech titans, what Trump could learn from Lincoln and why she remains optimistic about America ...

The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ...