Paul Finkelman, PhD, teaches at the University of Toledo College of Law and is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, Emeritus, at Albany Law School.
The 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery Republican, by a pro-slavery U.S. Representative Preston Brooks was a step on the road to the Civil War and has echoes in our own violent times.
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The new Lincoln Memorial Undercroft museum enshrines America’s highest ideals, however unrealized.
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