The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time The ...

LancasterHistory's newest museum has been accepted into a National Park Service network dedicated to the U.S. era of Reconstruction. The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and ...

It took the United States two tries to get the Constitution right. The first time was at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The second time was during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the ...

Control of the U.S. Constitution as a “living” and inevitably changing text has passed from the hands of the people to those of elites, argues bestselling historian Lepore (These Truths) in this ...

The Constitution was drafted at the Constitutional Convention between May 25 and Sept. 17, 1787. Our founding fathers assembled at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to create a document to replace the ...

Editor: This coming April 1, better known as April Fool’s Day, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument on President Trump’s fool’s errand of trying to end Constitutional Birthright ...