Progressives have created the fiction in which the US Constitution “is what the Supreme Court says it is.” In reality, the ...

Since President Trump returned to the White House, he’s issued executive orders that target diversity, equity and inclusion ...

The Center for Public Integrity’s landmark project, 40 Acres and a Lie has taken second place in the annual Philip Meyer ...

African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, centre) at the third march from Selma to ...

When Theodore Johnson was a young boy in Raleigh, North Carolina, he and his family had to be strategic to make ends meet.

White dread of race-mixing girded the remorseless segregation of the Jim Crow era that followed the end of slavery. Trump warns Americans that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” ...

Several years later, in the aftermath of the Civil War, members of Congress realized that further extending the amnesty might undermine efforts at Reconstruction, both by restoring politicians who ...

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial ...

Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, swiftly granted an amnesty ... All the failures of Reconstruction, real as they were, cannot justify such grave doubts about the achievements of abolition.

In his speech, Johnson declared the beginning of a “new reconstruction era,” referencing the period after the Civil War ended when slavery was outlawed and the country grappled with how to ...