Justice

When cattle barons carved up Texas with barbed wire in the late 19th century, cowboys formed fence-cutting gangs to preserve the open range.

An enslaved woman’s experience with General Sherman’s army.

An online roundtable on a new biography of Fannie Lou Hamer.

A new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction examines the ways in which Black Americans formed networks of self-reliance in their pursuit of emancipation.

How Oct. 1 came to be celebrated as “Jerry Rescue Day” in abolitionist Syracuse.

As a white teenager in Charlotte, Elizabeth Prewitt saw mandatory school busing as a personal annoyance. Going to an integrated high school changed that.

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

65 years ago this week, Edwin Walker helped enforce Little Rock integration. Then he devoted himself to segregation.

Moving migrants from Texas to Democratic strongholds is not new. The Reverse Freedom Rides of the 1960s hold lessons for activists of today.

Aaron Burr was the highest-ranking official to stand trial for treason, which some people have invoked now amid probes into ex-president Donald Trump.

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.

Beginning in 1967, the Army built fake towns to train police and military officers in counterinsurgency.

Among the thousands of cases the Supreme Court has decided, only a handful of dissenting opinions stand out.

The modern Republican Party has tied itself to Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, the party is vulnerable to new issues.

The Supreme Court has watered down the policy’s core justification: justice.

For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

The Civil Rights Movement was a radical struggle against Jim Crow tyranny whose early foot soldiers were Communists and labor militants.

It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration. In fact, it was the culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice.

Felix Frankfurter warned that politicians, not the courts, should make policy.

After the deadliest home-front disaster of the war, African Americans throughout the military took action to transform the nation's armed forces.

Why all Americans benefit from higher education for those incarcerated.

Women’s military uniforms were once about making soldiers look feminine. Now they’re about enhancing performance.

The right to abortion has been both supported and contested throughout history.  When banned, abortions still occur, but legal restrictions make them less safe.

“I came to the realization that taking to the streets to fight social revolution in this country is like ‘spitting in the wind; it will fly back into your face.”

When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light.

My Chinese-immigrant parents dreamed big for me, their American-born daughter whom they raised in the suburbs east of San Francisco.

A 1923 article in a fashion magazine shows the connection between flappers and social media youth organizers today.

Bikepacking historian Erick Cedeño retraces the Buffalo soldiers' legendary journey from Montana to Missouri to rethink it and its place in American history.

McGirt v. Oklahoma and the failure of denationalization.