Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

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 ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways ...

Trump has heaped praise on William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, born in Niles in Trumbull County and ...