Sammy Aiken, a member of the 37th U.S. Colored Infantry Civil War Reenactors, stands by an exhibit at the N.C. Museum of History on Jan. ... read more
The war against that foreign power was fully as legal as would be an American invasion of Cuba if Cuba were to attack the American Embassy in Havana and fire on the Guantanamo naval base. read more
It took the Civil War to break slavery’s stranglehold on politics and fundamentally alter the nature of constitutional law and constitutional change. The demise of slavery began with slaves running away and the army freeing them. But the key moment was the Emancipation Proclamation, which was the first important executive order in American history. read more