On Memorial Day — a holiday that originally honored Union soldiers who died defending the principles enshrined in our ...

Does Donald Trump have the power to suspend a foundational legal right to challenge a person’s arrest and detention?

A dangerous consequence of not knowing our history is not knowing our truth. Many Americans are taught that the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, […] ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

"Ironically, as the House case chugged slowly toward settlement, it unleashed a new series of challenges to the ongoing model ...

Secession” Law, a domestic statute threatening the use of force should Taiwan formally declare independence, is widely interpreted as an emblem of the Chinese Communist Party’s disregard for ...

Done at Raleigh, 20th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1861." The following ... assent to and ratify the 'Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America ...

and therefore as a mere confederate. This is a position that no State has a right to assume under the Constitution, and one that will not be tolerated in the Union. So, it is said, that in ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use ...

and comprises two "books", one on Johnston's role in operations in Virginia and adjacent areas in 1861-1862, and one on his activities in Mississippi in 1862-1863. McMurray argues that while Lee is ...

The study of American History is often neatly divided between the period of the Civil War and before and the period after the ...

The item veto was lifted in 1902 from the Confederate constitution. It was folded into a state constitution best known for imposing a poll tax and literacy test designed to deny the vote to Blacks ...