Written by a slaveholder and joined by five other slaveholders, Dred Scott v. Sandford's reasoning is continuous with the consent theory that surfaced in enslaving states. It treats the denial of ...

In a sparsely attended event on March 25 in Morris Library, Catherine Davis, a longtime anti-abortion activist and founder of ...

The 13th Amendment prohibited slavery and peonage.

A scholar tells the Sun that the ancient privilege will be ‘front and center’ in the 47th president’s clash with the courts.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon E. Meacham said the United States was at a “crossroads” and called on Americans to ...

Advocates say tens of thousands of newborns could be subject to removal from the U.S. even though they’ve done nothing wrong.

If a person is born in Ohio or anywhere else in the United States to anybody other than a foreign diplomat or a member of an ...

Trump and now-Vice President J.D. Vance last summer repeated the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were stealing ...

He referenced the 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which he said contributed to the American Civil War. “An irresponsible Supreme Court can make a country burn.

Democratic states, pregnant immigrant women and advocacy groups are defending court orders blocking Trump's controversial executive order against birthright citizenship.