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Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, reports Katie Hawkinson

History matters at the U.S. Supreme Court, where most justices either embrace or occasionally rely on a form of interpretation called “originalism,” which holds that the original meaning of the Constitution should be sought, and relied on, to decide cases.

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members