History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification. The amendment reads as follows: ...

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification.

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California is well known for its costly housing, high end apparel, high class lifestyle, and entertainment industry. It’s also well known for its cultural separation, homelessness, incarceration rates ...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, white southerners tried to restore, at gunpoint, the slave society that had existed prior to the war, notwithstanding the Thirteenth Amendment’s abolition of ...

The Appellate Division has deferred the scheduled hearing of a review petition filed challenging the cancellation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which introduced the caretaker government ...