Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...
Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to undo the Civil War
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...
Opinion
The revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment
People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...
Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee
Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...
Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified.
Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, reports ...
What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...
The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship
The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...
Opinion
Spoiling for a fight: Why challenging birthright citizenship is a win-win for Trump
This week, the Trump administration doubled down in its fight against birthright citizenship. The usual alliance of pundits, professors and press lined up to declare any challenge to birthright ...