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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, ...

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In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a brief, "subjective" biography of his former law partner, but his research turned up such unexpected and often ...

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an entry in Wikipedia, it is highly relevant today. Understanding the ...

Enjoy outdoor movies and music festivals, sip piña coladas, toast Bastille Day, and celebrate the DC Defenders’ championship.

The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...