Justice

Conservatives have claimed the moral high ground of so-called originalism. Liberals need to put forward their own vision.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.

The high-water mark of the anti-immigrant and anti-German hysteria that gripped the nation during World War I.

In 1932, twenty-thousand unemployed WWI veterans descended on Washington, DC to demand better treatment from the federal government.

Losing the support of the Supreme Court is disappointing, but it need not be the death knell of progress.

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

In 1928, women wanted more than just the vote. They wanted to do everything a man could do. Even fly the Atlantic.

Its purpose 150 years ago was to incorporate former slaves into the nation.

Not directly. But it's more complicated than you think.

History reminds us that firm and sometimes violent opposition to racists is a time-honored American tradition.

A review of David Blight's new biography of Frederick Douglass.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.