Then there were outliers, and at first, it seemed that Dr. Thompson Maxwell was one, but his situation was much different. His uncle, Col. Hugh Maxwell, was a highly decorated Revolutionary War ...

Before President Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship, there was widespread agreement that the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship for U.S.-born babies.

An Argentine emigre in Florida quickly got her newborn son a U.S. passport last year. During a legal fight over President ...

In 1833, Herald of the Times, a Newport, Rhode Island, newspaper, reported that the remains of Mrs. Rebecca Lopez had been brought from New York by steamboat and placed inside Touro Synagogue.

Defending birthright citizenship changes, President Donald Trump's administration is citing an 1884 Supreme Court case called ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship as we have known it. The court’s eventual ...

Born into slavery, Bustill became an entrepreneur, a patriot and one of the founders of a thriving Black Philadelphia.

An expert uncovered new details about the mysterious life of a forgotten Long Island hero killed in World War II after an ...