Was Lincoln More Radical Than We Remember?
Damon Root discusses the path to emancipation, the struggle to secure freedom after the Civil War, and the constitutional changes that remade America.
Reconstruction
Freedom Towns: A Vast but Largely Forgotten Movement of Black Self-Rule
Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville, Florida, was one of the first all-black municipalities incorporated in the U.S.
A Call For Papers: The Reconstruction Amendments
Come present at the first conference held by the Constitutional Law Institute at the University of Chicago
Do Originalists Ignore the Reconstruction Amendments?
The accusation is often made. But it simply isn't true.
