Three-Fifths Clause

The United States has a terrible habit of letting white supremacy get away with repeated attempts to murder American democracy.

They believed that wealth should have no bearing on a citizen’s voting power.

We say we’re for it. We’ve never truly had it. These next few years will determine its fate.

During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.

States have a legitimate way to influence national politics. Forcing their will on other states isn't it.

In 1920, James Weldon Johnson went to Washington, armed with census data, to fight rampant voter suppression across the American South.

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.

Eric Foner reviews two new books that make the case against the Electoral College.

Revisiting the Missouri Compromise should transform how we think about white American expansion.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.

How the territory became the frontline of the battle for abolition.

Most of the arguments for preserving our insane system are morally odious, unsubstantiated, and/or factually incorrect.

America’s long history of manipulating its headcount for political gain.

Voting has always been restricted to empower a minority.

Champions of states' rights love federal power when it suits their goals — like Sessions's anti-marijuana crusade.

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.

The White House chief of staff set off a firestorm Monday after his comments on the Confederate general.

The two men owned slaves — but at vastly different moments in American history.