Why do people here hate Union Gen. Benjamin Butler? Didn't he fight for New Orleans? Dear Reader, More than 150 years after Benjamin Butler came and left, New Orleanians still tell stories of the ...

When an escaped slave shows up at Fort Monroe demanding sanctuary, General Benjamin Butler is faced with an impossible moral dilemma—follow the letter of the law or make a game-changing move that ...

LOWELL — In the impeachment proceedings of his era, Benjamin Butler was a leader, calling for the removal of President Andrew Johnson from office just years after the conclusion of the Civil War. For ...

The New York Times reported on this day in 1878 that Massachusetts Rep. Benjamin Butler, a Radical Republican who chaired the House Judiciary Committee in the post-Civil War period, would retire from ...

Benjamin Butler, a Union major general in the Civil War, knew how to take a stand — whether it was against a 14-hour work day when he was a young lawyer or, later, when he made a bold move after an ...

Back around 2015, North Coast Repertory Theatre artistic director David Ellenstein got his hands on the script for Richard Strand’s play “Ben Butler.” Three pages in, Ellenstein was hooked. But it ...

Benjamin Butler’s sixth solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery centers around a body of work that began taking shape shortly after his 2022 exhibition at the gallery’s Ludlow Street space. In the ...

LOWELL — It takes more than one word to sum up Benjamin Butler, a prominent Massachusetts politician and major general in the Civil War. And that one word certainly isn’t “beast,” according to several ...

Benjamin Butler paints trees. As a shtick, it’s awfully specific, but as a formal constraint, it’s surprisingly open-ended, because the organic patterns of a plant’s growth, while necessarily always ...

When you consider the source, the words are doubly shocking: “I have no purpose to interfere with the institution of slavery. I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” That ...

More than 150 years after Benjamin Butler came and left, New Orleanians still tell stories of the Civil War general, which shows how important — and infamous — he is in the city's history. As the ...