Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

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And the court will rule that Congress has no power, under the Fourteenth Amendment ... after the Civil War. Final emancipation, final meaning to the promise of the first Reconstruction, doesn ...

A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal ...

The meaning of the clause is bound up with the entire drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction ... of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments.

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Fifteenth Amendment ...

With Kamala Harris’s concession, America stands at a crossroads, deciding whether to return to the foundations of White ...

Eric Foner, a historian and professor at Columbia University who specializes in the Civil War, Reconstruction and slavery, said the 14th amendment enabled Black people to legally enjoy freedoms ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This rich and innovative collection explores the ways in which Black women, from diverse regions of the American South, employed various ...