Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

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

Even if the administration loses before the Supreme Court, it will force Democrats again to fight against a tougher stance on immigration issues.

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

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 ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined ...

After the war ended, three amendments were added to the Constitution granting citizenship and righting the wrongs of ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

And such is the case with the 14th Amendment, especially Section 1.

Dred Scott was enslaved trying to fight his way to freedom as the Civil War came to *** close with President Lincoln assassinated. And with slavery abolished by the 13th Amendment. The reunited nation ...