Justice

A new book chronicles the decades-long fight to legalize abortion in the United States.

A careful examination of the Privileges or Immunities Clause shows what we lost 150 years ago.

Police have been using the snapshots in criminal investigations since the advent of commercial photography

In 1970, Angela Davis was arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial — and her eventual victory — proved to everyone that the justice system was corrupt.

The Richmond Bread Riot broke out during the Civil War when working-class women in the South became fed up with food shortages.

The tensions between the Manhattan District Attorney and President George H.W. Bush.

Even after Wong Kim Ark successfully took his case to the Supreme Court 125 years ago, Asian Americans struggled to receive recognition as U.S. citizens.

Taking up arms against slavery, the famous novelist foreshadowed the vexed role of the white woman activist today.

It’s nearly impossible to separate modern-day gun laws from race.

A new book offers the first full-length biography of newspaper editor, labor leader and minister Samuel Ringgold Ward.

The editors of a new book talk about the history of the Indiana facility — written by people who were held there almost 150 years later.

Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.

The first women to serve in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps helped improve military medicine and expand women’s opportunities to officially serve in the armed forces.

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.

How Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's activism set the stage for Lebron James and twenty-first century Black professional athletes.

The relentless radicalism of Benjamin Lay.

Police champions have long wielded new technology as a tool to project authority and legitimacy, while deflecting criticism.

The story of Morris Slater, aka Railroad Bill, prompts us to ask how the legend of the "American outlaw" changes when race is involved.

And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.

Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.

As environmental rights seem on the verge of a comeback, it’s worth remembering why they once seemed so promising, and why that promise remains unfulfilled.

Involuntarily committing people with serious mental illness, however well intended, has long served to remove them from society instead of providing treatment.

The demand of antislavery activists for accused fugitives to be guaranteed a jury trial was an implicit recognition of Black citizenship.

Despite decades of Indigenous activism and resistance, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to tribes.

For Ellen and William Craft, a flight from bondage required a daring masquerade, with exposure a constant risk.

Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.”

What the political fight over a photo teaches us about the power of art, grassroots activism and images.

Women’s rights activism has shaped America for the better throughout our history, so why should colleges be banned from teaching it?

Examining slavery, Indian removal, and state policies regulating mobility to trace the constitutional origins of immigration restriction in the 1800s.

During World War II, almost a half million POWs were interned in the United States, where they forged sympathetic relationships with Black American soldiers.