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The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, a consolidated case on the legality of two Arizona voting laws. Both prohibit voter ballots submitted at i…

Following the end of the Civil War, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were passed - each addressing the rights of the formally enslaved. Michael Bellesiles, author of Inventing Equality: Re…

Clemson University history Professor Vernon Burton recalled his experiences as an expert witness for plaintiffs in voting rights cases in South Carolina and Texas. Professor Burton also disc…

Legal scholars took part in a National Constitution Center discussion on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing the right for women to vote, and the 15th Amendment, which …

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talked about his book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, in which he looked at the 13th, 14th, an…

You Matter was one of the second-prize high school central winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Ashleigh Richardson and Ta’Kaiya Cooper, juniors at Ramsay High Schoo…

Judges talked about the impact of the Reconstruction Amendments on both legal history and their personal careers in the federal judiciary. They spoke about examples from desegregation and vo…