Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Fifteenth Amendment was the last of three Reconstruction Amendments. The first two were ratified in 1865 and 1868, respectively. The 15th ...

Foner’s talk emphasized the importance of an accurate telling of Reconstruction history. Foner pointed to forces in academia ...

In this way, Plessy rejected not only the Reconstruction Amendments, but the philosophy behind them. The amendments were built on the idea that the right approach to race issues was to protect all ...

Most of Reconstruction legislation is far ahead ... did not do it under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment has still not been interpreted to allow Congress to bar private ...

A woman who was part of a "Trump Train" of cars and pickup trucks that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus says the ...

In “America’s Deadliest Election,” Dana Bash and David Fisher detail an especially dangerous episode of political unrest.

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ...

At the same time, the country is more deeply polarized than it has been since Reconstruction ... that can be made without constitutional amendment. The Senate can change its rules to eliminate ...

Counties and municipalities across central Ohio have issues on November ballot, many seeking tax increases for services such ...

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it will step in to help speed up projects to fix the island ...