Justice

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

From Dow to now.

Reconsidering Earl Warren's place in U.S. history.

They’re invested in legal education, creating an originalist industrial complex with outsize influence.

Like student protesters today, Martin Luther King Jr. and other 1960s civil rights activists were criticized as disruptive and disorderly.

While some of the worst behavior has come from local and state police, university police have shown themselves to be just as capable of brutality.

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

At the height of circus animal acts in the late nineteenth century, animals who killed their captors might be publicly executed for their “crimes.”

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their word.

The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.

Swarns’s book about a sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is the legacy of resistance.

Mark Rudd says a lot has changed in half a century, but not the reason college kids paralyze a campus.

When "The Emancipator" was first published in 1820, its original owner had to answer for why he owned Nancy and her five children.

Revisiting the AAUP's 1971 UCLA investigation.

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.

In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery.

Abortions happened in Arizona, despite a near-complete abortion ban enacted in 1864. But people also faced penalties for them, including a female doctor who went to prison.

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

On the continuing regime of racial terror in the post-Civil War American South.

The story of an incident that may have been the first time the issue of race was ever addressed on a baseball field in the Carolinas.

A conversation with the activists and writers about their wide-ranging history of the politics of the common good and togetherness.

A changing NBA fan base drove the league toward an embrace of Black culture, and social justice politics.

DARE lost its once hegemonic influence over drug education, but it had long-lasting effects on American policing, politics, and culture.

Land acknowledgments amount to the hollow incantations of hollow people.

While some liberals decry abortion bans as a war on women, history reveals that this charge distorts the reality of their impact.

The anti-obscenity law is unenforceable and probably unconstitutional. Conservatives still want to use it to ban medication abortions.

It was never very effective at preventing drug use.

The surprising history of a politically charged phrase.

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America.

One of the cases on which the judge relies said the opposite of what he claims it did.