Category: Civil Rights Acts
Alabama Speaker of the House Looks at Overturning the 14th Amendment Passed During Reconstruction
I was looking at Kevin Levin’s site Civil War Memory yesterday and an article popped up in which the Speaker of the Alabama House was…
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore Wins Pulitzer for History
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, by Jill Lepore (Liveright) has won the Pulitzer Prize for History. About a third of the…
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Panels That May Be Taken Down
Andrew Johnson was the president in the last weeks of the Civil War. After the Confederate armies had surrendered, he became the principal architect of…
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation by Zaakir Tameez
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation by Zaakir Tameez published by Henry Holt 640 pages (2025) Many years ago, I read Harvard historian David Donald’s…
Charles Sumner & The Campaign to End Slavery and for Equality
Zaakir Tameez is getting a lot of attention for his new book Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation. This new biography authored by a young…
Frederick Douglass Our Composite Nation Exhibit New-York Historical Society
The life-sized figure of Frederick Douglass in the interior of the New-York Historical Society is not painting, it is a statue that is exactly based…
The Civil War Origins of the 14th Amendment & Birthright Citizenship Panel Discussion
Video is at bottom of article! A couple of weeks ago I was part of a panel discussion put on by Emerging Civil War on…
Thaddeus Stevens in Gettysburg Pennsylvania
Thaddeus Stevens is someone we have all heard about, but not too much. At least until Stephen Spielberg made him the dark hero of his…
Beaufort, S.C. Reconstruction Era National Park Opens New Exhibit on South Carolina Civil Rights from Reconstruction Onward
A new travelling exhibition opens on July 15, 2023 at Reconstruction Era National Park in South Carolina. According to Explore Beaufort: A traveling exhibition that…
Was The 14th Amendment’s Legislative Intent To Correct the Wrongs of Slavery and Discrimination?
In the recent oral argument before the Supreme Court in the case of Merrill v. Milligan, the State of Alabama argued that the Voting Rights…