Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified. - Black activists championed the idea of birthright ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the work of ensuring their enforcement. On July 9, 1868, South Carolina became ...

It might be more than 100 years in the making, but calls to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment were renewed this week at a ...

Editor's note: This story was written in June of 2018. When “Amending America: The Bill of Rights” opens in Lancaster on Saturday, the traveling exhibit will find itself in a city that was home to a ...

In conversations about civil rights and constitutional change, we often look outward, to Washington, D.C., to Supreme Court ...

President Donald Trump's executive order purporting to abolish birthright citizenship for millions of U.S.-born children is an insult to the text, history, and original public meaning of the ...