Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
One of two pandas, presented to the Zoo by Madam Chiang Kai-Shek and Madam Kung in 1941, delights visitors. (The New York Zoological Society was renamed the Wildlife Conservation Society in 1993.)