With birthright citizenship on the Supreme Court docket in the case Trump v. Barbara, the largely unexplored history of popular discourse on this topic is especially relevant, Lawrence Glickman, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences writes in The Atlantic.
"The focus in legal arguments has been around the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment," Glickman writes in the piece. "Although constitutional experts and other scholars have relied on the amendment’s legal history to show that birthright citizenship has been the law without exception for well more than a century, newspaper archives offer another useful trove of evidence."
