Keywords Civil War, Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson, radical Republicans, ... The film details the implementation of the Freedmen's Bureau, the introduction of the 14th and 15th Amendments, ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended discrimination. Understand this 1964 Act's key rules, its landmark provisions against race ...

Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified after the Civil War, which ended in 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment is the least cited in case law by the judiciary.

Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion used a noise complaint hypothetical to justify letting Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional citizenship order blare on for everyone except the specific plaintiffs ...

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, ...

Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps “The Constitution will hereafter be read by the light of emancipation” ...

There were no British soldiers in the American colonies for 130 years. Colonists distrusted soldiers due to stories of brutality against civilians by soldiers under orders of tyrannical kings in ...

The event holds special significance on Hilton Head Island. Freed slaves purchased land on Hilton Head after the Civil War, and many of their descendants, called Gullah Geechee people, still live ...

The right to a civil jury trial is far more deeply rooted in American history and tradition than is the right to own guns, which the Supreme Court was right to incorporate.

Two Black men from Bloomington and El Paso fought for rights enshrined in the 14th and 15th Amendments, but they still had obstacles to overcome. 2 Black Civil War vets from El Paso, Bloomington ...