Fourteenth Amendment — Bunk History

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Suppressing Native American Voters

South Dakota has been called "the Mississippi of the North" for its long history of making voting hard for Native Americans.

by Jean Schroedel, Artour Aslanian, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on August 25, 2020

Standing on the Crater of a Volcano

In 1920, James Weldon Johnson went to Washington, armed with census data, to fight rampant voter suppression across the American South.

by Dan Bouk via Census Stories, USA on July 27, 2020

The Achievements, and Compromises, of Two Reconstruction-era Amendments

While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.

by John Fabian Witt via Washington Post on October 31, 2019

Senate trying Andrew Johnson for impeachment in 1868.

Impeachment is the Right Call Even if the Senate Keeps President Trump in Office

Awaiting a Senate trial might curtail Trump's worst behaviors.

by Gregory P. Downs via Made By History on October 7, 2019

Political cartoon about Reconstruction.

The Buried Promise of the Reconstruction Amendments

The historical context of the amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War, Eric Foner argues, are widely misunderstood.

by Eric Foner, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on September 9, 2019

Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy

Business schools fetishize innovation, but their heroes succeeded due to manipulation of corporate law, not personal brilliance.

by Nan Enstad via Boston Review on March 20, 2019

The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law

How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on February 4, 2019

Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

The “fetishization” of Appalachia’s supposed racial and ethnic purity and Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship.

by Timothy Pratt via 100 Days in Appalachia on November 19, 2018

A House Still Divided

In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.

by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on September 13, 2018

The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century

The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 4, 2018

It’s Time to Fulfill the Promise of Citizenship

The rights we save may be our own.

by Hidetaka Hiroka, Natalia Molina via Made By History on July 29, 2018

Citizenship Shouldn't Be a Birthright

Guaranteeing citizen status simply for being born here is a deliberate misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment.

by Michael Anton via Washington Post on July 18, 2018

Map of Oregon

Oregon’s Racist Past

Until the mid-20th century, Oregon was perhaps the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.

by Linda Gordon via Longreads on July 12, 2018

"Though Declared to be American Citizens"

The Colored Convention Movement, black citizenship, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

by Andrew K. Diemer via Muster on July 11, 2018

Citizens to Come: Building Beyond the 14th Amendment

Commemoration of the 14th Amendment must not display the abundance of freedom, but the hunger for it on both sides of the border.

by Sonya Posmentier via Public Books on July 10, 2018

How a Pivotal Voting Rights Act Case Broke America

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on July 10, 2018

The Urgency of a Third Reconstruction

The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. Yet 150 years later, its promises remain unfulfilled.

by Robert Greene II via Dissent on July 9, 2018

Company Men

The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on March 29, 2018

'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie

How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent.

by Adam Winkler via The Atlantic on March 5, 2018

A prison cell with a television tuned to election coverage.

Why Felon Disenfranchisement Doesn't Violate the Constitution

The justification can be found in an obscure section of the Fourteenth Amendment.

by Sara Mayeux on December 21, 2017

A Vestige of Bigotry

The Supreme Court and non-unanimous juries.

by Andrew Cohen via The Marshall Project on September 25, 2017

The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools

A major investigation reveals that white parents are leading a secession movement with dire consequences for black children.

by Emmanuel Felton via The Nation on September 6, 2017

The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.

by Lynn Adelman via Dissent on September 1, 2017

The Roots of Segregation

"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.

by Carl Paulus via The American Conservative on May 5, 2017

An American flag flying in front of a large Christian cross.

The Religious-Liberty Attack on Transgender Rights

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

by David Sehat via Boston Review on May 27, 2016

Donald Trump Meet Wong Kim Ark

He was the Chinese-American cook who became the father of ‘birthright citizenship.’

by Fred Barbash via Washington Post on August 31, 2015

To Have and to Hold

Griswold v. Connecticut became about privacy; what if it had been about equality?

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 25, 2015

Photo of Jimmy Lee Jackson.

The Killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson

How a post-Civil War massacre impacted racial justice in America.

by Debo Adegbile via The Marshall Project on February 27, 2015

Caricature drawing of Charles Black

Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness

Traditional Supreme Court precedent may depend too much on substantive due process to safeguard human rights.

by Laurence H. Tribe via New York Review of Books on September 24, 1998

Photo of Wong Kim Ark and document about Chinese Exclusion.

History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism

Even Trump’s recent assertion that he would use executive action to abolish birthright citizenship has a historical link to the Chinese American experience.

by Michael Luo via The New Yorker on January 5, 2025

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