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A brilliant lawyer with a commitment to racial equality ... Buchanan was already a rising political star by the time 50-year-old Thaddeus Stevens moved to Lancaster in 1842. Stevens had come ...
It’s Friday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County and the surrounding region. Some of ...
The interior of a structure that will house a downtown Lancaster museum celebrating the legacies of an abolitionist ...
Lydia Hamilton Smith is often referred to as Thaddeus Stevens’ housekeeper—and, perhaps, his common-law wife. In fact, she was a great deal more: a fervent Catholic, a smashingly successful ...
THADDEUS STEVENS, late Chairman of the Committee ... we had to pass a tax law to create a revenue. It was a monstrous task, but one that the villainy of the South had forced upon us.