Fifteenth Amendment

A new history of Andrew Johnson’s trial reminds us the impeachment is a tool to constrain executive abuse of power and publicize dissent on matters of policy.

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.

It’s time to fight for the original and heretofore unachieved goals of the women’s movement.

A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.

A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.

The “Anthony Amendment” was introduced with no luck for 41 years. And even then, it wasn’t for everyone.

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.

Voter suppression tactics have roots in Southern history dating to the Antebellum era.

The Constitution of 2018 is not the Constitution written by the Framers in 1787, and no one should wish otherwise.

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.

Clinton's memoir addresses the gendered discourse and larger feminist contexts of the 2016 presidential campaign.

We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.

The first revolution articulated American ideals. The second enacted them.

How black freedom benefited poor whites.

The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.

The internecine conflict and the institution of slavery could not and did not end neatly at Appomattox or on Galveston Island.

The National Parks Service, which preserves many Civil War sites, is finally looking for a way to mark the struggles that defined its legacy.

How the Supreme Court got it wrong.