Highlighting Black political leadership provides a fuller picture of the diverse range of change-makers in the United States ...

March 2 is rarely celebrated as the birthday of our America — but it should be. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which ...

A woman leading a dog cart with vegetables, a man and a woman towing a barge along a canal in the Dutch countryside, with windmills in the background, Netherlands, engraving from The Graphic, 1879.

Mr. Bassin is a co-founder and the executive director of Protect Democracy and a former associate White House counsel. Ms. Parker is counsel at Protect Democracy and a former deputy chief of the ...

Historians say that this wave of laws making it harder to vote echo the backlash to the electoral gains made by African Americans during Reconstruction (1865-1877), the era of political revolution in ...