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1 Feb 2022, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On the same day that the US Congress approved the 13th Amendment ending slavery, Charles Sumner introduced a motion to admit Boston attorney John Rock to argue cases before the US Supreme Court. [read post]
26 Jul 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
HuebnerSenator Charles Sumner and the Admission of John S. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 9:30 pm by ernst
Charles Sumner (LC)Lucy Salyer (University of New Hampshire) posted "'It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield': Charles Sumner and the Fight for Equal Naturalization Rights" (HNN). [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 7:22 pm by Sheldon Gilbert
And almost immediately after his admission, he wrote to his friend, Senator Charles Sumner, saying he hoped to be admitted as a U.S. [read post]
27 May 2019, 4:30 am by Karen Tani
And she brings to vivid life the extraordinary characters who brought that impeachment forward: the willful Johnson and his retinue of advocates—including complicated men like Secretary of State William Seward—as well as the equally complicated visionaries committed to justice and equality for all, like Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Ulysses S. [read post]
11 Jan 2007, 1:43 pm
Sandford, and Charles Sumner's "Freedom National" address. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 3:45 pm by Lovechilde
Sumner brought Charles Darwin to America and twisted him into a theory to fit the times. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 7:01 am by Philip Thomas
Noble, John Keith Perry, Jr., Whitman Davis Mounger and Charles Swayze, Jr. [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 5:49 am by Jim Sedor
New York – Ex-Brooklyn Prosecutor Charles J. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 2:01 am by Steve Lubet
Abraham Lincoln and William Seward had been Whigs, of course, but Salmon Chase and Charles Sumner had been Free-Soil Democrats. [read post]
11 Jun 2019, 6:30 am by Mark Graber
  None bother with John Bingham, Thaddeus Stevens, James Ashley, Charles Sumner or Lyman Trumbull, the persons primarily responsible for the post-Civil War Amendments. [read post]
13 Mar 2018, 3:27 am by NCC Staff
A faction called the Radical Republicans, led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, dominated the party and it saw President Johnson as obstructing its goals during the period of Reconstruction. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 12:42 pm by Kelly Buchanan
A few examples of books written in English include: John Taylor, Elements of the Civil Law (1755) David Irving, An Introduction to the Study of the Civil Law (1837) Charles Phineas Sherman, The Study of Law in Roman Law Schools (1908) Charles Sumner Lobingier, The Evolution of the Roman Law from before the Twelve Tables to the Corpus Juris (2nd ed., 1923). [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 2:53 am by Scott Bomboy
Former Whigs who founded the Republican Party included Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, William Seward, and Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 10:58 am by John Floyd
  A Radical Republican lawmaker named Charles Sumner was beaten nearly to death on the floor of the Senate in 1856 (one year before Dred Scott) by South Carolina Representative Charles Brooks after Sumner made some anti-slavery comments. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 8:39 am
Undeniable evidence that the company's executive, Sumner Simpson, played a crucial role in covering up the hazards of asbestos is contained within a series of documents known as The Sumner Simpson Papers. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 5:25 pm by Ilya Somin
As Blackman and Tillman note, the pro-impeachment camp included such luminaries as Senator Charles Sumner (a longtime leader of the antislavery constitutional movement whose ideas underpinned the Reconstruction Amendment), and Rep. [read post]
16 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
Charles Sumner was dismissed as “unpractical and impractical. [read post]
22 Apr 2022, 4:23 pm by Mark Graber
  Many members of Congress, most notably Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, enthusiastically supported federal legislation prohibiting race discrimination in public schooling. [read post]