Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in ...

Eric Foner, a historian and professor at Columbia University who specializes in the Civil War, Reconstruction and slavery, said the 14th amendment enabled Black people to legally enjoy ...

It was the 14th Amendment to the Constitution — known as the birthright amendment and intended to provide citizenship and ...

The connection between birthright citizenship and slavery becomes most apparent through the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868 as a direct response to the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment ... animosity still plagued the nation and the reality of a post-slavery America begged contentious racial and social questions.