Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start of the 19th century, the United States ... mightily to the prosperity of New York City and brought commercial civilization to ...

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...

who gets to be an American citizen. Nonetheless, even in the highly racialized political environment of the late 19th century, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed an expansive view of birthright ...