The U.S.-born children of unlawfully imported former slaves received citizenship in 1868.

This arrangement changed with the introduction of the Income Tax in 1913. Now, there was an alternative to using tariffs to raise revenue. The Revenue Act of 1913, which introduced the first peacetime ...

President Donald Trump is locked in a legal battle to end the automatic right to citizenship for children who are born in the country even if their parents arrived illegally. Roughly a third of ...

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

Indigenous people in the U.S. are worried by President Donald Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right, using a 19th century case that denied citizenship to a Native ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

Vice President J. D. Vance gave a speech to a shocked audience at the Munich Security Conference attacking liberal ...

Wisconsin’s second-oldest prison, built in the 1800s and long targeted for closure, would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Gov. Tony Evers that proposes ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

Joseph J. Thorndike examines how tariff policy in the 19th century slowed the introduction of the modern income tax.

The oystermen knew Sandy Ground was a safe haven for them to have the freedom to work, learn and worship where it would not ...

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...