Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

The originalist argument in favor of birthright citizenship is that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” was meant to invoke only a small set of exceptions found in traditional British common law.

The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will ...

Nativists extol Calvin Coolidge for closing the golden door. But he never broadly disparaged immigrants and often praised diversity.

Connie Francis, 87. The wholesome pop star’s 1950s and ’60s hits included “Pretty Little Baby” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” — the ...

In January 2020, a few weeks before the entire world experienced one of the greatest social and economic disruptions in ...

Today in History for Dec. 14: ...

This is “woke”? Nothing in the series struck me as virtue signaling. In fact, the opposite: The documentary scans a ...

While only a small number of us live to be 100, everyone’s birthday has a centenary date. For historians who seem mostly to ...