Legal minds will have their opportunity to shape the future policies of our land, and I pray they have the grace and wisdom ...

“This is a period when people’s ideas are in rapid flux,” says Eric Foner, a preeminent historian of Reconstruction. “People who, at the time of the 14th Amendment, said we cannot tell the ...

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The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in ...

Eric Foner, a historian and professor at Columbia University who specializes in the Civil War, Reconstruction and slavery, said the 14th amendment enabled Black people to legally enjoy freedoms ...

One of them is the 14th Amendment. Live updates ... It was adopted in 1868 during the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War, aiming to protect rights of formerly enslaved people in the ...