THADDEUS STEVENS: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice. By Bruce Levine. Simon and Schuster. 320 pages. $28. Thaddeus Stevens spent much of his working life in government, first at the ...
Meet the historical figures for whom the planned Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy at Queen and Vine streets is named. • Lancaster’s U.S. congressman during the ...
Bruce Levine, Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2020 The name of Thaddeus Stevens is too little known today. Bruce Levine, professor ...
Making historical figures relevant in a world of chaos is not easy. But Chris Beiler thinks so highly of Thaddeus Stevens that he decided to try a new way. So the Akron father of two young children ...
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 ...
The great Pennsylvania lawyer and “radical Republican” legislator Thaddeus Stevens is known by many as an innovator and public policy trailblazer. While his work as a congressman to eliminate slavery ...
HER STORY. SHE WAS INTELLIGENT, BUT SHE WAS COMPASSIONATE. SHE WAS STRONG. SHE HAD GREAT AMBITION AND THE WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF THOSE STATEMENTS IS LYDIA HAMILTON SMITH, KNOWN BY SOME AS SIMPLY A ...
A new $19 million museum is expected to open in Lancaster County next year. The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy, a museum and education center being developed ...