Justice

Our country has a long history of admiring particular acts of violence.

The week between Christmas and the new year offered a rare opportunity for enslaved people to reclaim their humanity.

Second-wave feminists meant business—but they had a lot of fun at it, too.

If Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. gets confirmed, the Bureau could be politicized in ways that even its notorious first director would have rejected.

What is an apology from the President of the United States worth if reparations do not include cessation of settler colonial violence?

Across the history of the U.S. abortion-rights movement, it has also been a matter of equality.

Am 1884 guide to vice and crime by the founder of the world’s largest private detective agency.

Women abolitionists held annual Christmas bazaars to raise money for the cause; these fairs sold everything from needlework to books to Parisian dresses.

Rankin's 'Letters on American Slavery' set out a moral argument for abolition that resonated across the nation.

Why did it take so long for the U.S. Army to authorize the enlistment of Black men as soldiers?

Christine Jorgensen and the birth of trans bathroom panic.

The incoming Trump administration wants to take away citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Here’s how.

Under pressure from his wealthy family, Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was white.

Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”

A story of intrigue and power involving union organizers, Black laundry workers, the Mafia, and the FBI in 1980s Detroit.

Historically, liberals defended the First Amendment and our free speech rights. Now, too many on the left seek to undermine constitutional protections.

Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches. Their rivalry was political, sometimes even personal.

Many of today's most influential right-wing tactics and arguments have their roots in 1960s-era college campuses.

The Supreme Court’s deference to FDR during World War II resulted in unjustifiable ethical breaches.

Testing is necessary. The SAT’s creator is not.

The story of how Ed Carnes became a judge offers crucial lessons for those who hope to unwind the policies of mass incarceration.

John Rankin, minister and fierce abolitionist, is a man worth remembering in our moment.

As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph many subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.

A history that is as tactical as it is analytical, as global as it is local, and as based in love as it is in politics.

The malice test is the result of judicial activism and should be rejected by a Court that understands its task as the discovery, not the invention of law.

Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.

Before women could vote, they sold cookbooks like ‘The Woman Suffrage Cook Book’ to raise money for their cause.

A 1950s mass deportation campaign shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.

Stephen Bright and Bryan Stevenson defended the abolition of capital punishment at a moment when political support for that movement reached its nadir.

A reading from 1920 on the fights that follow the 19th Amendment: “Now at last we can begin.”