Dred Scott, an enslaved person born in Virgina around 1799, and Wong Kim Ark, the son of Chinese immigrant parents, born in ...

Once upon a time, doctors were convinced that using leeches and drawing the blood of patients cured illness. No matter how ...

United States v. Wong Kim Ark is a Supreme Court case from 1898 that supporters of birthright citizenship say settled the matter. It didn’t -- not even close.

Dear Editor, Justice Gray explained the Civil Rights Act (1866) declared, "All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power" were citizens thereof, but in the 14th ...

Why we have birthright citizenship in the United States. The 1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark case was the first to consider whether children born to parents without legal status are citizens.

In 1895, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan, in China’s Guangdong province, and was barred from reentering the United States.

United States v. Wong Kim Ark is a Supreme Court case from 1898 that supporters of birthright citizenship say settled the matter. It didn’t -- not even close.