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 ...

THE ISSUE: Thaddeus Stevens was born nearly 230 years ago, on April 4, 1792, in Danville, Vermont. He was, in the words of the Gettysburg-based Thaddeus Stevens Society, “the most powerful congressman ...