When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations advocates want to try again in 2026.

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le Roy, represented the 30th Congressional ...

A discussion of the development of civil rights law in the US through the enactment of key legislation and formation of the ...

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 ...

Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...

Abraham Lincoln’s firm resolve during his last days demonstrated his enduring commitment to the common good', A CT historian writes.

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...