(CBS Local)-- Thaddeus Stevens is a name that many people aren't familiar with, but the former Republican Congressman was one of the most important voices in the fight against racism and slavery ...
Writing a biography of Lancaster’s 19th-century antislavery congressman, Thaddeus Stevens, “was sort of a long-term plan” for historian Bruce Levine. “He’s kind of a nearly lifelong hero of mine,” ...
The first thing you notice about Bruce Levine’s biography of Civil War-era congressman Thaddeus Stevens is that although the political alignments have changed, not much else has. Congress has always ...
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 ...
Bruce Levine presented a vivid virtual lecture on Thaddeus Stevens a few days ago. The retired history professor based his LancasterHistory-sponsored talk on his new biography, “Thaddeus Stevens: ...
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 ...
THE DEEPER I LOOKED INTO IT, THOUGH, THE MORE I LEARNED ABOUT THADDEUS STEVENS, THE MAN AND WHAT HIS POLITICAL CAREER REALLY HAD BEEN. I HAD REALIZED MANY, I THINK, NOW COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE ...
No American political figure has been more distorted in popular memory than Thaddeus Stevens, the Radical Republican congressman who played a major role in guiding the nation’s trajectory through the ...
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 ...