President Ulysses S. Grant used this pen to sign the presidential proclamation of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on ...

The following statement has been carefully prepared, and is believed to be correct: Kansas ratified the amendment Feb. 27; Louisiana and Nevada, March 1; Missouri, March 2; West Virginia, March 3 ...

As with questions of constitutionality and legitimacy, the tenure of the current government has sparked ongoing debate ...

The most extensive preparations for the celebration of the anniversary of the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment are being made by our colored citizens.

Watch experts explain the Reconstruction Amendments (Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment), created to establish equality for black Americans.

Despite the amendments post-Reconstruction laws limited voting rights After the Civil War and with the advent of the 15th Amendment, Republicans and African American men mobilized.

A handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution signed by Abraham Lincoln has sold at auction for a record $13.7 million. It’s the highest price ever paid for a document signed ...

This print features a festive parade held in Baltimore in May 1870 to celebrate the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1870), which granted the right to vote to male citizens ...

Actually, the 14th Amendment Still Exists Trump signed an executive order purporting to rewrite birthright citizenship. That’s not how the Constitution works.

An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to auction via Sotheby's.