History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined ...

Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...

During the six and a half years Savvy Shabazz spent incarcerated in nine Kentucky institutions, he worked for as little as 63 cents a day. Now, he and others are pushing for an amendment to modernize ...

Tennessee General Assembly passed immigration enforcement legislation that prohibits elected officials from voting for ...

On Feb. 1, 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened in New York City for its first session. Only three of the six justices were ...

The same can be said of the state’s prisoner labor practices, which take advantage of a loophole in the 13th Amendment’s abolition of slavery to mobilize a massive workforce on behalf of ...