History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

A discussion of the development of civil rights law in the US through the enactment of key legislation and formation of the ...

Tennessee General Assembly passed immigration enforcement legislation that prohibits elected officials from voting for ...

Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

The same can be said of the state’s prisoner labor practices, which take advantage of a loophole in the 13th Amendment’s abolition of slavery to mobilize a massive workforce on behalf of ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Abolitionists famously used arguments of faith to challenge the institution of slavery. While the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865, it took until 2022 for Tennessee voters to amend the ...