Reconstruction Amendments

The cruelty of enslavers when it came to reproduction and families shaped the 13th and 14th Amendments.

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.

While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.

The Pennsylvanian was one of America’s greatest heroes. Why hasn’t he gotten his due?

Despite Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a Colorado state judge stretches the word “officer,” permitting him to remain on the state’s ballot.

On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.

These 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump.

Tying the fight for equal rights to the founders and the Constitution has worked before.

And Congress should claw it back.

Koch argues that the Age of Revolution, known mainly as the period between the American Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848, continued all the way to 1865.

A review of three books about Abraham Lincoln, the 14th Amendment, and Reconstruction.

While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.

In his new book, The Crooked Path to Abolition, James Oakes argues that the Constitution was an antislavery document.

One hundred and twenty five years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, there are still lessons to be gleaned from the case.

The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments tried to remove the power of the states to impede key rights.

At the height of the Reconstruction, the pressing issue of the election was Black male suffrage.

The enduring lesson of American history is that the republic is always in danger when white supremacist sedition and violence escape justice.

While Wednesday's images shocked us, they fit into our history.

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.

A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.