Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented.

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in 1868. That places it at an important historical crossroads, when ...

This was eliminated by the 14th Amendment, which established equal protection of the laws and due process for all. Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as ...

although Lincoln did not live to see the ratification of the amendment in December 1865. Our collections provide many perspectives on the Civil War and give a fuller understanding of this epic event.

This amendment, a product of the post-Civil War constitutional revolution, guaranteed that every person born within the United States would be guaranteed citizenship and all its rights.

The answer, unfortunately, is “yes” — under the current understanding of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution enacted after the Civil War. As everyone knows from the history of that era ...