If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

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Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life. During the American Revolution, families were often divided between Patriots ...

The city of St. Louis and the leader of its city council have filed a federal lawsuit against a new Missouri law that puts a state-appointed board in control of the local police department ...

Retrumplicans have set me and my history-teaching colleagues straight. We’re done “rewriting history.” Apparently 17th and 18th century Europeans “found” a virgin wilderness where they could establish ...

Can President Trump withhold federal money for low-income students? A brewing fight over diversity, equity and inclusion ...

The framers of the Constitution expected there would be tension between the branches or between the federal government and the states ... an alleged Confederate sympathizer named Roger Merryman ...

As The Atlantic first reported, the Trump administration acknowledged in court that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was “ an ...

Hundreds show up in downtown Hattiesburg to protest the Trump administration's policies as part of the 50501 Movement.

Moreover, the governors of all eleven Confederate states were Democrats ... from their ballots pursuant to the Constitution’s insurrection clause. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled ...

The Constitution of the Confederate States is an agreement made between independent States. By its terms all the powers of Government are separated into classes as follows, viz.: 1. Such powers as ...