Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.

Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story o

The vast majority of the global population acquires citizenship purely by accidental circumstances of birth. There is little doubt that securing membership stat

Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "a nation of i

This is a story of hope, but also of peril. It began when our nation’s polarized political class started conscripting everyday citizens into its culture war.