Brooklyn has had its share of famous people, but very few were of the influence and stature of Henry Ward Beecher. He was an amazingly complex man, with the religious zeal of a Billy Graham, the ...

The Man. * In 1813 there was born to the Rev. Lyman Beecher,a small contradiction, who was christened, after due consideration, Henry Ward. He was a contradiction because, although the son of a pious, ...

A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan cited a line attributed to Henry Ward Beecher: "God asks no man if he ...

An opera looks at Victoria Woodhull, whose story centered on politics, sex and scandal. By James Barron Using a blizzard and a scarf, David Hammons humanized an otherwise demeaning 19th-century ...

Now nearly forgotten, Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) was an immensely famous minister, abolitionist and public intellectual whose career was rocked by allegations of adultery that made nationwide ...

On an elegant residential block in Brooklyn Heights stands what once may have been the most famous church in America. Plymouth Church, on Orange Street, was founded in 1847 with just twenty-one ...

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery Henry Ward Beecher “In ...

What does a man do when his entire adult life has been dedicated to the eradication of slavery, and then slavery is abolished? How does he handle the fact that he has won? Does a man of faith see that ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...