American Studies Professor Jonathan White looks at Civil Liberties and Treason during the Civil War. This hour and fifteen minute class took place at Christopher Newport University in Newport News ...

When Congress was drafting Section 3 of the 14th Amendment the year after the Civil War ended, the purpose of that provision was clear: to prevent people from serving in the government if they had ...

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In his instructions to the Grand Jury of the United States Court, on the subject of high treason, Judge SMALLEY is at once a sound expositor of Constitutional law and of public opinion.

Questioning Florida holidays for Civil War traitors isn’t so stupid ... each one should have been tried for treason and should have suffered the fate of traitors who fought against their country.