Martha S. Jones

It’s about more than immigration.

Another chance to examine the terms we use and why they matter.

Philadelphia gave America its flag, along with other enduring icons of nationhood. But for many, the red, white and blue banner embodies a legacy of injustice.

It wasn’t a culminating moment, but the start of a new fight to secure voting rights for all Americans.

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.

Winning the vote for women was a mighty struggle. Securing full liberation for women of color was no less daunting

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.

It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.

Its purpose 150 years ago was to incorporate former slaves into the nation.

Five historians weigh in on a new book about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

In 1868, black activists had already been promoting birthright as the basis of their national belonging for nearly half a century.

What Dred Scott teaches us about thwarting bad law.

We should take him seriously. Black Americans have been threatened with deportation before and it never ends well.

This online forum sponsored by the Journal of the Civil War Era features 9 essays and a roundtable on the future of Reconstruction Studies.

How birthright citizenship became a barrier for undocumented immigrants.