are powerful but not always historically helpful ways to conceive of the 13th Amendment and the other two Reconstruction amendments. While slavery did not create the American republic, the ...

The Thirteenth Amendment was submitted for ... especially in the American South. One massive debate during reconstruction was, what would happen to all those recently defeated former Confederates?

The Reconstruction Congress enforced the 13th Amendment with the 1867 Anti-Peonage Act ... competition and hurt workers by suppressing the wages of as many as 30 million American workers. The agency ...

Short for “June Nineteenth,” the holiday marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the ...

For one, it clearly states that American citizenship is a birthright ... and three other related clauses. The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the ...