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, ...

Sumner deserves to be remembered for much more than being the victim of Brooks’s assault, argues Zaakir Tameez in his engrossing biography “Charles Sumner: The Conscience of a Nation.” Mr. Tameez, a ...

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

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

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 ...

In Ornstein’s words: “Jane will be missed.” (The next free society webinar is Thursday, June 26, at noon, on a new biography of abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner.

Royal expert Ingrid Seward wrote that the Queen's younger sister, Princess Margaret, was ' wilful, contrary and an impossible ...

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

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