The driving force on Capitol Hill is cowardice, as both GOPers and Dems confess to fear of violence. It wasn't always that ...

History can be cruel. Charles Sumner, the great abolitionist senator from Massachusetts, is remembered only for being beaten ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Charles Sumner, the abolitionist and senator, was their contemporary—yet many Americans today associate his name with a single historical moment: when Preston Brooks, the representative from ...

Opinion What we can learn from the senator who nearly died for democracy. The brutal caning of Sen. Charles Sumner in 1856 shows the difference between courage and concession.

Charles Sumner . In the Senate, Sumner made clear his intense hatred of slavery and hailed the Declaration’s egalitarianism as “the very soul” of America.

A key player in that strengthening was abolitionist Charles Sumner (1811-1874), the lanky, leonine senator from Massachusetts best known for his bloody caning at the hands of a pro-slavery ...

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

Some are also comparing the incident to the 1856 caning of Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner, one of the only violent assaults in the Senate. In that instance, a pro-slavery lawmaker, ...

WASHINGTON, March 11.--Senator Sumner died at thirteen minutes before three o'clock this afternoon. For two or three days Mr. Sumner had been conscious of the approach of the attack with which he ...

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 ...

Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner risked his life for the sake of Kansans’ freedom.. On May 22, 1856 — 168 years ago — he suffered a beating at the hands of unhinged South Carolina Rep ...