Flying in the face of this ideal, an ugly strain of nativism has run throughout American history as evidenced by virulent anti-immigrant movements that reared up in the 1790s, 1870s, and 1920s.

he was part of a group (many were German immigrants) that formed the “Manitowoc Library and Scientific Association” — the first attempt to start a public circulating library. In 1870 ...

What is now the city of Goygol was originally founded as Helenendorf by German immigrants who fled to the Caucasus in the ...