As the temperature reached 90 degrees in the Senate chamber on this day in 1856, freshman Sen. Charles Sumner (R-Mass.) rose to denounce the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which called on those ...

Charles Sumner entered the freshman class Sept. 1, 1826. The undergraduates, now numbering nearly a thousand, at that period scarcely reached two hundred. Rev. John T. Kirkland was the president.

On this day in 1874, Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts died at age 63 from a massive heart attack. With Sumner’s death, the nation lost a leading proponent of Reconstruction in the years following ...

As a student of American history, I believe there are some very important heroes who have never received the acknowledgement and acclaim they deserve. Charles Sumner from Massachusetts is one of those ...

As Democrats propose a series of wide-ranging reforms and Republicans try to beat them back, it has become popular to say that Capitol Hill is stricken with endemic partisanship and that we’ve reached ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — It's been 150 years since the Charles Sumner School first opened its doors to African Americans in D.C., and on Thursday evening, many will gather to honor that legacy. The mostly ...

Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a name for himself as an advocate of liberal causes. His outspoken support of abolition and the rights of emancipated blacks, and his calls for punishment ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Charles Sumner’s unswerving commitment to racial justice was the defining feature of his legislative career. First ...