As tensions over slavery reached a boiling point, Senator Charles Sumner was brutally caned by Preston Brooks after ...

Charles Sumner Elementary’s Sumner Stars (“always respectful, responsible and ready to learn”) for November, first row, from left: David Fernandez, Keyvon Murray, Willow Beck, Isaiah ...

Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve ...

Preston Brooks entered the Senate Chamber and accosted abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner with his cane, beating him until he was unconscious. So regarding chaos and absence of civility, the U.S ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican, has been in the Senate longer than most Americans have been alive. Now he holds an important key to Donald Trump's second-term agenda. The 91-year-old ...

The man’s cousin, an enraged Preston Brooks, a man known most notoriously as a later member of Congress who beat Sen. Charles Sumner nearly to death on the floor of the Senate in 1856 for his ...

The man’s cousin, an enraged Preston Brooks, a man known most notoriously as a later member of Congress who beat Sen. Charles Sumner nearly to death on the floor of the Senate in 1856 for his ...

For 45 years, Longfellow wrote and hosted luminaries, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator. Today, the house is owned and operated by the ...

in a duel. Ministers from the pulpit denounced dueling and demanded that Graves be punished. He was censured but not expelled. In 1856 Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC) beat Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) with a ...

She captivated A-List guests such as future president James Garfield and Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner, a Boston Brahmin who wasn’t easily impressed. One visitor wrote, “She had something ...