In the aftermath of the Civil War, the ratification of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution sought to extend legal protections to former slaves while barring states from ...

A federal jury awarded $40,000 in compensatory and punitive damages against the organizer of the Trump Train. The trial considered evidence of a Trump caravan that harassed and threatened occupants of ...

In 1871, six years after the end of the Civil War, the state of race relations was awful in the United States. Yes, the Union had defeated the Confederacy and forced the end of slavery. Yet in ...

One hundred and fifty years ago, a distant cousin of mine rode with Ulysses Grant up Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill and began the process that, most recently, has resulted in Donald Trump and ...

A lot of the people who invaded the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were part of QAnon, which believes that the United States is not actually run by a Constitution anymore. They believe the country is actually ...