Immigrants in the millions have come to the United States, most in waves beginning in the 1840s. Many immigrants and their descendants have contributed mightily to America. Others have contributed ...

Nativist cartoons from the 1840s and '50s often used ethnic stereotypes to depict Irish and German immigrants as national threats to the United States. Here, they are depicted as drunken election ...

Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum US 1840-1860 provides the first detailed look at how these immigrants were changed by their relocation and how the American economy responded to their arrival ...

Immigrants have been recruited to work in the US, then later the US has deported many depending upon shifts in attitudes, economic conditions.

U.S. Census figures show Iowa’s population skyrocketing in its first three decades, from 1840 to 1870, with the influx during the 1800s fueled primarily by German immigrants who left their home ...

This study examines the occupational mobility of antebellum immigrants as they entered the U.S. White collar, skilled, and semi-skilled immigrants left unskilled jobs more rapidly after arrival than ...

Boston had been on a mission. The 1840s were the city's greatest decade of reform. When the city was flooded with immigrants of a different type and number than it had ever received, its citizens ...

Our ancestors came here for a better life. For some reason, immigration has historically been controversial in our country. In the 1840s, a small but powerful political party called the "Know Nothings ...