Researcher and author Stanley I. Evans, creator of Hocus Pocus: The Art of Deception, has released a new video uncovering the real story behind the adoption of the Titles of Nobility Amendment (TONA)—the long-suppressed 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Drawing on archival documents, legislative records, and official correspondence from 1810–1818, Evans explains how the amendment was lawfully ratified but later vanished from the public record through bureaucratic manipulation and historical neglect. The video traces Connecticut’s key role in the confusion, the forged committee report that altered the record, and how all three branches of government once recognized the amendment as valid.
This presentation challenges the accepted narrative and calls for renewed transparency from the National Archives, Congress, and the states.
