Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Stephen Puleo provides an introduction into who Charles Sumner was in American history. Author Stephen Puleo discussed the career and life ...

may have ingloriously cemented the position of women in Congress as few others have ... Preston Brooks of South Carolina ...

Senator Charles ... the bill. Sumner accused the bill's authors, Senators Andrew P. Butler and Stephen A. Douglas, of supporting slavery. Two days, later, South Carolina Congressman Preston ...