On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

Slavery was a critical part of the United States from its creation, both as a collection of colonies and as its own entity. The practice was legal in all 13 colonies, and the authors of the ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. The Thirteenth Amendment was intended to complete the destruction of slavery begun by the U.S. government during the ...

Historians agree that  the earliest record of the West African chattel, commonly called slaves, arrived in America in 1619.

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

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President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads "Slavery and involuntary servitude in this State are forbidden, except as a ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification.