Justice

Revisiting the AAUP's 1971 UCLA investigation.

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.

In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery.

The legendary actor left a mark in both film history and an industry fraught with self-regard.

Abortions happened in Arizona, despite a near-complete abortion ban enacted in 1864. But people also faced penalties for them, including a female doctor who went to prison.

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

On the continuing regime of racial terror in the post-Civil War American South.

The story of an incident that may have been the first time the issue of race was ever addressed on a baseball field in the Carolinas.

A conversation with the activists and writers about their wide-ranging history of the politics of the common good and togetherness.

A changing NBA fan base drove the league toward an embrace of Black culture, and social justice politics.

DARE lost its once hegemonic influence over drug education, but it had long-lasting effects on American policing, politics, and culture.

Land acknowledgments amount to the hollow incantations of hollow people.

While some liberals decry abortion bans as a war on women, history reveals that this charge distorts the reality of their impact.

The anti-obscenity law is unenforceable and probably unconstitutional. Conservatives still want to use it to ban medication abortions.

It was never very effective at preventing drug use.

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America.

One of the cases on which the judge relies said the opposite of what he claims it did.

Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr, z-grams, and the all-volunteer force.

From a 1915 suffragist road trip to the “First Lady of Drag Racing.”

The defining of corporations as legal “persons” entitled to Fourteenth Amendment rights got a leg up from the fight over a California anti-Chinese immigrant law.

Kevin Cook and Jeff Guinn on David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the 1993 siege of Waco.

Marronage as a placemaking practice, pointing to histories that shape and inspire abolitionist struggles.

A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination.

Organizing is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength.

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

Even if today's anti-war protestors couldn’t tell you who the Berrigan brothers were, the Catholic Left’s shadow looms large.

In defense of the furred and the hoofed.

The struggle over blood and belonging in American Indian communities.

A civil rights initiative during World War II known as the Double V campaign advocated for dual victories: over fascism abroad, and racial injustice in the U.S.

A documentary that follows the writer’s late-in-life journey to the South chronicles his vision for Black politics in a post–Civil Rights era world.