In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...

Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1866 -- Congressional Reconstruction, 1866-1869 -- "Let us have peace," 1869-1873 -- The end of Reconstruction, 1873-1877 -- Coda, 1879 "The defeat of the Confederacy ...

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Decision by decision, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority is hardening America’s division into a two-tier society.

In the state constitutional conventions of the Reconstruction South, biracial coalitions of delegates constitutionalized universal public-school systems and kept their constitutions free from ...

Decision by decision, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority is hardening America’s division into a two-tier society ...

The Great Neck Library will present "Becoming the United States," an art exhibit about America from colonial times to the ...

Republican-controlled state legislatures across the US are enacting new restrictions on voter participation that target non-whites. Since the Civil War, white supremacy in America – nowadays embraced ...