Congratulations to Guy Emerson Mount, winner of the George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in @jcwe.bsky.social in 2024! Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/news/announc...

Congratulations to Dr. Mount!

We’re proud to launch The Refounding, the 14th Amendment Center’s new newsletter! Stay connected with legal updates, scholarship & events that illuminate the past, present & future of the 14th Amendment. Read the first installment written by our founder @sifill.bsky.social medium.com/@TheRefoundi...

Have you registered for the free webinar on birthright citizenship yet? It’s time to learn what’s at stake. We cannot protect it if we don’t understand it. howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Have you registered for the free webinar on birthright citizenship yet? It’s time to learn what’s at stake. We cannot protect it if we don’t understand it. howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In today's Muster, JCWE Book Review Editor Megan Bever has a conversation with Shae Smith Cox about her book, The Fabric of the Civil War Society www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/08/conv...

Muster is looking for new contributors! We want to include a wide range of voices from many different of perspectives. Please share the following call widely. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/08/call...

It's not just Pirro's office. The federal government has been bleeding qualified career attorneys throughout the DOJ and elsewhere. They are simply not equipped to handle it if everyone who is targeted by their illegal power grabs were to push back and take them to court.

In our continuing #AHAPerspectives series on the historical work of NPS, @katemasur.bsky.social and Greg Downs write about their work advocating for NPS to include Reconstruction in its interpretation.

Historians @katemasur.bsky.social and Greg Downs write about their collaboration with the National Park Service to help establish Reconstruction Era National Historical Park. All of this good work is now under threat from the Trump administration. #NationalParks www.historians.org/perspectives...

Between this and the news that Vought has stopped the NIH from issuing any more grants this year — (illegally) refusing to spend money that Congress has allocated — we're getting a glimpse of what could be a really ugly future for higher ed and science / technology in the US. And it's coming fast.

Everything you need to know about birthright citizenship as advocates continue to fight (successfully) against the administration's attempts to undermine it, courtesy of my @brennancenter.org team: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... @sam-breidbart.bsky.social

Having shaken down Columbia, Trump reportedly now wants to "settle" w Northwestern & other schools. I beg anyone w power at these schools (& I've reached out to a handful of ppl at NWern directly) to read this critical analysis by Columbia law prof. David Pozen: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...

This is actually a significant & frightening step in the fascist flex. If you support someone targeted by Trump the DOJ will turn its investigatory muscle against you. Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Congratulations to my student Henry Dickmeyer for this H-net/H-fedhist review of @katemasur.bsky.social and Greg Downs recent article in the Journal of American Constitutional History! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Starting a project on historical understandings of invasion, rebellion, and executing the laws. Short version. No president during the 18th or 19th century would have federalized state militia to deal with sporadic violence during a political protest. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/07/the-...

In today's Muster, Andrew Donnelly discusses his new book, Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/06/andr...

In today's Muster, Joan Cashin and Alaina Roberts discuss their special issue of the JCWE on Material Culture during the Civil War era www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/07/conv...

In today's Muster, Law Professor Mark Graber discusses the historical context for the Militia Act of 1903 www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/07/the-...

40% off these wonderful volumes to round out your summer history reading list. "A Firebell in the Past: The MIssouri Crisis at 200," Vols. I and II. Use code SUMMER40 @umissouripress.bsky.social upress.missouri.edu/978082622249... upress.missouri.edu/978082622231...

Chapters by @bobbylee.bsky.social @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social @katemasur.bsky.social @nic-wood.bsky.social @zachdowdle.bsky.social ‪and others

"A faithful account of 14th Amendment’s history demonstrates that the Reconstruction Congress supported race-conscious programs . . ." -- brief by @rachelshelden.bsky.social, @hngreen.bsky.social, @stephenwest.bsky.social, @katemasur.bsky.social, & more. Read www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20...

For more on why Trump’s executive order is unconstitutional, check out this brief (filed in the First Circuit) by historians @katemasur.bsky.social and @marthasjones.bsky.social on the broad guarantee of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Glad to see Ezekiel Kweku going deep on birthright at the @nytimes.com. Still, a correction. Emancipation did not bring on the need for a 14th A. Instead, the refusal of lawmakers for decades before to credit FREE Black Americans as citizens demanded that birthright be constitutionalized.

Read @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social's brief, making exactly this point: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Historians at work - birthright citizenship - it’s history ! And traditions!! And scotus’ decision on process not merits exacts its own violence to civil rts (h/t Dr. Martha Jones @katemasur.bsky.social ) open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

It was meant to prevent a President from, on a whim, denying birthright citizenship to those entitled to it. For more, see this brief from historians @katemasur.bsky.social and @marthasjones.bsky.social www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

Years of advocacy by free Black Americans had ensured birthright citizenship would be given to them as well – and to the children of immigrants. The rule that became part of our Constitution was meant to reach broadly, beyond merely those who were newly freed.

My colleague ‪@sam-breidbart.bsky.social‬ has more on why this is historically inaccurate: bsky.app/profile/sam-...

President Trump continues to get the history of the 14th Amendment wrong. He says birthright citizenship was only granted to newly freed slaves. But the 14th Amendment was clearly broader than that – and everyone at the time knew it.

For my first ever Bluesky-post (I believe), I am excited to share the publication "Socialism at the Edges of Civilization" (see below), but more excited for the opportunity to thank @katemasur.bsky.social, @gregdowns.bsky.social and all the other good people involved the writing and editing process!

Our event on birthright citizenship with @marthasjones.bsky.social @katemasur.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social Erika Lee and me is now a podcast! Download it here 👇🏻

Looking forward to this live @brennancenter.org event on Thursday at 12:30 Eastern, when we'll provide a wide-ranging discussion of birthright citizenship -- its advocates and adversaries. Details below... Join us!

This Thursday at 12:30 PM, Live on YouTube: Dig into the historical dimensions of birthright citizenship with leading historians @marthasjones.bsky.social @katemasur.bsky.social and Erika Lee. Register here to get the link: brennan.swoogo.com/birthrightci... @brennancenter.org @oah.org

And, if you're digging this thread, come see @marthasjones.bsky.social @katemasur.bsky.social and Erika Lee on Thursday, June 12 @ 12:30 PM on YouTube. Register here: brennan.swoogo.com/birthrightci...

The new amicus brief from Martha Jones and Kate Masur is a critical intervention in the challenges to Trump’s birthright citizenship EO. It's also a really interesting example of historical briefing. Walk with me as I unpack a few thoughts… 🧵⬇️ @brennancenter.org

I’ll join Erika Lee, Kate Masur, and Tom Wolf for this conversation about BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. Thursday June 12. Join us!

⏰Register now for June 12! Join @brennancenter.org & oah.org or an online conversation with historians Martha Jones, Erika Lee, and Kate Masur as they unpack the historical dimensions of the birthright citizenship cases. RSVP TODAY: brennan.swoogo.com/birthrightci... @brennancenter.org

The new amicus brief from Martha Jones & Kate Masur takes head-on the administration's main legal (and public) justification for its unconstitutional executive order on birthright citizenship. Read it here: www.brennancenter.org/media/13981/... @brennancenter.org

Two of the most respected historians of the 19th century US have written this critically important brief in the birthright citizenship cases. Please read and share

So grateful for the work of these two brilliant scholars!

In this brief, @marthasjones.bsky.social and I demonstrate that free Black Americans spent decades claiming birthright citizenship against those who denied it, that the Framers of the 14 Amend. listened, and that these facts should matter to today's Courts. www.brennancenter.org/media/13981/...

I've long admired Kate Masur for her work on abortion history and civil rights history, very excited for y'all to become familiar with her mfing receipts. And @marthasjones.bsky.social? I mean, what can I possibly say, a goddam legend in her own time.

⏰June 12! Join @brennancenter.org for an online conversation with historians Martha Jones, Erika Lee, and Kate Masur as they unpack the historical dimensions of the birthright citizenship cases. Co-sponsored by @oah.org. RSVP TODAY: brennan.swoogo.com/birthrightci... @brennancenter.org

In this brief, @marthasjones.bsky.social and I demonstrate that free Black Americans spent decades claiming birthright citizenship against those who denied it, that the Framers of the 14 Amend. listened, and that these facts should matter to today's Courts. www.brennancenter.org/media/13981/...

Historians Martha Jones and Kate Masur have filed a critical new brief in the birthright citizenship cases, showing how the story of free Black Americans' advocacy for birthright citizenship unravels the admin's lead justification for its EO. Read it ⬇️ www.brennancenter.org/media/13981/...

Historian @marthasjones.bsky.social & @katemasur.bsky.social, a member of the Historians Council on the Constitution, filed a brief against the birthright citizenship executive order. History contradicts the administration's claim that the 14th Amendment applies only to “newly freed slaves.”

I’ve told the story many times. Now @katemasur.bsky.social and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in the US. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.

In today's Muster, Lindsey Peterson discusses her March 2025 JCWE article "Home-Builders": Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Union Civil War Commemorations. This article received the 2023 Anthony Kaye Memorial Essay Award. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/04/lind...