President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

Saturday, Feb. 1 is George Washington Carver Day in Iowa , a well-deserved honor for the recipient of the Spingarn Medal, ...

Birthright citizenship was a profound acknowledgment that those born here, regardless of parentage or circumstance, belong ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in 1868. That places it at an important historical crossroads, when ...

President Trump has signed an executive order to effectively end birthright citizenship. Here's what it means, and how the ...

Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to further centralize ...

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where ... As Foner documents in his history “Reconstruction,” after the Civil War, many Americans — including President Andrew Johnson — thought ...

It is one of the most important accomplishments of the Reconstruction era, and one of the most critical safeguards of justice, citizenship, and equal protection under the law: the Fourteenth Amendment ...

A federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order that aimed to end birthright citizenship, an ...

President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to have been ratified. His statement ...

Trump, meanwhile, has promised to challenge the 14th Amendment with an executive ... early tweaks to the electoral college system and the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, which gave rights ...