The authors say that the inclusion of birthright citizenship in the Constitution in 1868 has ramifications that apply in today's debate in Congress.

President Donald Trump's recent executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children of non-citizen parents has faced immediate legal pushback. Multiple federal judges, including those ...

The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally.

In celebration of Black History Month, Calvert Library and Maryland Libraries Together have collaborated to present a special ...

A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has sold at auction for $3.1 million. The delicate oil painting measures less than 15 inches tall and about 5 inches wide. Raphael painted the portrait of ...

For only the third time this century, an original painting by renowned Renaissance great Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520) is coming to auction. The diminutive oil-on-panel Saint Mary Magdalene ...

In 1826, a young Black mariner by the name of Gilbert Horton strode ashore in Norfolk, Virginia, clad in “a tarpulin hat, linen shirt, blue cloth jacket and trowsers (sic).” Horton gave ...

The statement “the Negro was the central figure and the most effective in Reconstruction,” found in the Editors’ Introduction to Eric Foner’s book Reconstruction is not a statement of fact, but a ...