Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also ...

Democrat Representative Jamie Raskin claimed the 14th Amendment included provisions to halt Trump’s march to the Oval Office ...

although Lincoln did not live to see the ratification of the amendment in December 1865. Our collections provide many perspectives on the Civil War and give a fuller understanding of this epic event.

1865-- Civil War ends. 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, added to the Constitution. 1866-- Ku Klux Klan formed in secrecy; disbands 1869-71; resurgence in 1915. Congress takes over Reconstruction.

Howard Berkowitz writes that voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz means more protection of civil rights for all Americans, not just wealthy.

Year of FARA. Once an obscure and rarely enforced lobbying regulation, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) has become ...

The Colorado Supreme Court used a Civil War-era constitutional amendment to ban Donald Trump from the ballot The US Supreme Court is expected to rule on Monday on whether states can use an anti ...

The Crawford County Civil War Roundtable will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church on Liberty Street in Meadville. The public is invited and welcome to attend.

After the Civil War, Congress sought to remove barriers to Black men’s voting, especially in the South. In 1866, when Congress debated the 14th Amendment, its drafters wrote Section 2 in an ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. government tried to use the ... an equally long history of rulings that Americans have the First Amendment right to consume whatever media they want.

During the Cold War ... First Amendment rights. Since 2017, the Department of Justice has also required some foreign news outlets to register as foreign agents. Many civil libertarians are ...