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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Charles Sumner Was More Than Just a Guy Who Got Caned on the Senate Floor A new biography of the Republican legislator details his legal mind and his personal struggles. Share full article ...

Zaakir Tameez is the author of “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation,” to be released on June 3. On May 13, a man who made death threats against Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) for her foreign ...

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled her proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year on Wednesday. While Bowser’s plan avoids difficult furloughs and drastic service cuts because House Republicans blew a hole ...

When Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts died in Washington, D.C., in 1874, Frederick Douglass and a “great assemblage of colored men” followed his hearse to the Capitol where his body lay ...

Keitt and Virginia Congressman Henry Edmundson blocked senators from entering the chamber and stopping Congressman Preston Brooks, D-S.C., from caning Sen. Charles Sumner, R-Mass., on May 22, 1856.

Charles Sumner Lord II, “Charlie”, died on February 7, 2025 from complications due to dementia. He was born on September 10, 1935, in Burlington, VT to Florence Etta (née Brunelle) and ...