The Papers Of Thaddeus Stevens Volume 1

Hailed as u201cthe most important congressman in the House of Representatives during the Civil Waru201d and still honored in Pennsylvania as the father of its public school system, Thaddeus Stevens grappled in his day with many of the issues that confront us today: racial and economic equality, affirmative action, and equal access to education. Volume one of the projected two-volume edition of The Papers of Thaddeus Stevens covers Stevenu2019s political career from his Vermont youth to the end o