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

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Stephen Puleo provides an introduction into who Charles Sumner was in American history. Author Stephen Puleo discussed the career and life ...

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

An annual prize of one hundred dollars, the gift of Charles Sumner, of the class of 1830, is offered for the best dissertation by a student of the University in any of its departments on a subject ...

Charles Sumner Elementary’s Sumner Stars (“always respectful, responsible and ready to learn”) for November, first row, from left: David Fernandez, Keyvon Murray, Willow Beck, Isaiah ...

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 ...

In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the Gettysburg Address as “a monumental act” made even more poignant by ...

Charles Sumner once observed that “men ordinarily find in the Constitution what is in themselves, so that the Constitution in its meaning is little more than a reflection of their own inner ...

In Washington, anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner decried the spread of slavery to Kansas and accused Southerners of "raping and plundering the virgin territory." South Carolina Congressman ...

Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a name for himself as an advocate of liberal causes. His outspoken support of abolition and the rights of emancipated blacks, and his calls for ...

SUDBURY — Author and historian Stephen Puleo is set to discuss his new book, “The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union,” next month at the Goodnow ...