HISTORICAL FACTS: 5 - The Untold Story

In America, national parks are more than scenic − they’re sacred. But they were created at a cost to Native Americans

Abraham Lincoln has an almost saintly place in U.S. history: the “Great Emancipator” whose leadership during the Civil War preserved the Union and abolished slavery.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2023

Gettysburg tells the story of more than a battle − the military park shows what national ‘reconciliation’ looked like for decades after the Civil War

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 soldiers had been killed, wounded or captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, later seen as a turning point in…

The Conversation · Nov 17, 2023

Searching for the perfect republic: Eric Foner on the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump

The Pulitzer-winning historian of the civil war and Reconstruction considers one way in which some hope the former president can be stopped from retaking office

The Guardian - US · Nov 15, 2023

5 things to know about the 14th Amendment effort to block Trump from the presidency

Some legal scholars and activists say an obscure provision of the Constitution, dating back to just after the Civil War, should disqualify Donald Trump from a second White House term.

WEKU · Sep 25, 2023

PragerU rewrites the Civil War, Jan. 6

Abraham Lincoln is portrayed making arguments that sound like modern Proud Boys begging a judge for forgiveness

Salon · Sep 13, 2023

What’s the 14th Amendment and can it block Trump’s 2024 presidential bid?

Scholars say the US Constitution could bar the ex-president from holding public office for engaging in insurrection.

Al Jazeera · Sep 8, 2023

New Article on Insurrection, Rebellion, and Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment

Michael Stokes Paulsen and I have a new draft article: The Sweep and Force of Section Three, that is forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the abstract: Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids holding office by former office holders who then participate in insurrection or rebellion. Because…

Reason · Aug 11, 2023

America is on the brink of another civil war, this one fuelled by Donald Trump

The indictment of former United States president Donald Trump on charges he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is the most serious test of America’s experiment in constitutional government since December 1860, when the state of South Carolina seceded from the Union and set in motion…

The Conversation · Aug 2, 2023

Memory of fallen National Army soldiers ‘rehabilitated’ as monument unveiled

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tanaiste Micheal Martin attended the ceremony at Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin.

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2023

1849 law restricting women's health care

The state’s original abortion law was passed before the Civil War, when women could not vote or own property

Salon · Jul 30, 2023