Rather than write a column for this Independence Day weekend edition of the newsletter, I decided to chat with Zaakir Tameez, a recent graduate of Yale Law School, about his new biography of Charles ...

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 ...

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Stephen Puleo, The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union, St. Martin’s Press, 2024. Charles Sumner (1811-1874), like most Radical Republicans and abolitionists ...

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, ...

Among the leaders of the Civil War era, figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman stand tall. Charles Sumner, the abolitionist and senator, was their contemporary—yet many ...