As Thaddeus Stevens lay dying in his Washington, D.C., residence on Monday, Aug. 10, 1868, two black ministers from the Israel Methodist Church paid a call. Standing by the deathbed, they told the ...
Lancastrians familiar with the many accomplishments of abolitionist U.S. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens may wonder why the gifted politician and famed civil rights warrior isn’t better known and ...
Arguably the most important opponent of slavery in American history, Thaddeus Stevens is also the most forgotten. If the abolitionist Pennsylvania congressman is known at all today, it’s thanks to ...