By Paul D. Thacker, RealClearInvestigationsFebruary 19, 2025 President Trump often trumpets American exceptionalism, but an ...

As Garrett Epps puts it in Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, “for the first time in American history, the [Fourteenth ...

Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...

The state forged several firsts in racial equality and equal justice, but state laws now target all things diverse, writes ...

The massive amount of life lost in the Civil War could no longer be justified ... aspect of the anti-slavery revolution. The 13th Amendment, passed in truly extraordinary circumstances, through ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's ...

The original Republicans who crafted birthright citizenship into the amendment were doing nothing less than harvesting the greatest results of the Civil War, making good on the promise of freedom ...

Trump and Congress can put an end to ‘civil terrorism.’ ...

States and advocacy groups for immigrants have filed at least eight lawsuits around the country challenging President Donald ...