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

Senator Charles Sumner ... attacked Sumner in the Senate and beat him severely with a cane. It took Sumner almost three years to recover from the beating. After the Civil War, Grant, President ...

On November 19, 1863, near the site of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War ... In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading ...