Slavery Abolition

For more than two centuries, until the election of 2008, American presidents all looked alike. They were white and male and every one of them came to office with experience in the government, military or both. Barack Obama, the first African-American pres…

Conservative judges are advancing a vision of a country divided by religion, culture, and race, where Christians, white men, and corporate interests get special constitutional protection. We need a strategy to respond. Jedediah Britton-Purdy ▪ May…

Skip to comments. Roe v. Wade Is the Twentieth Century Equivalent of Dred Scott CaseCNS News ^ | OLDER ARTICLE: January 23, 2015 | Lynn Wardle Posted on 05/17/2019 7:29:31 AM PDT by topher January 22, 2015 marked the forty-second ann…

This is the grave of David Hunter. Born in 1802, David Hunter came of age within the northern elite. His grandfather was Richard Stockton, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is probably best known today for having a rest stop named for him on th…

WASHINGTON - While constitutional lawyers, ethicists and theologians — in descending order of importance in the abortion debate — have been arguing in the 46 years since the Supreme Court attempted to settle the debate, some technologists have been making a c…

A colleague volunteered some advice the other day about how I might leap into controversies over changing the honorary names of lakes and buildings and generally disinfecting the present from history’s toxic legacies. I’m not sure it’s wise to join this hist…

A lot of pundits are beginning to caution Democrats that veering too far to the left on policies could damage their prospects in the 2020 race by alienating moderate Democrats and Independents. Here is how Ronald Brownstein introduced the concern. Liberals d…

BOMBAY TIMES EXCLUSIVE A police van is stationed outside Javed Akhtars Mumbai home when we meet him on Monday afternoon. Even we are closely monitored as we enter the building. As soon as we meet him, the senior lyricist and poet lauds Mumbai Police and clari…

PHILADELPHIA, May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomorrow, Thursday, May 9, the National Constitution Center's new permanent exhibit Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equalitythe first exhibit in America devoted to exploring how constitutional…

Three years after the end of the Civil War, Florida, like other former Confederate states, began working to nullify the wars outcome. In 1868, to gain reentry to the Union, the state had to adopt a new Constitution that accepted the end of slavery and adopted…