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 of ...

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In Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, the first full-length biography of Sumner in more than two generations, the writer Zaakir Tameez resuscitates his subject’s reputation as a largely derided ...

We can see the limits of principle in the competing careers of two mid-19th-century American statesmen: Alexander Hamilton Stephens, born on a Georgia farm in 1812, and Charles Sumner, born in Boston ...

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, ...

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 Library, ...

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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 ...