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 ...

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

In the aftermath of the Civil War, white southerners tried to restore, at gunpoint, the slave society that had existed prior to the war, notwithstanding the Thirteenth Amendment’s abolition of ...

It took the post-Civil War constitutional amendments to overturn that ruling. The 14th Amendment was born not only of a Union victory and of the radical Republicans, but also out of decades of ...

Damn straight we have to fix that! Obviously, the Civil War amendments were exclusively about slavery -- as the Supreme Court has repeatedly held. The trick was to write an amendment stating that ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in 1868. That places it at an important historical crossroads, when ...