Many mid-19th century French immigrants were political refugees who ... By 1900, Chicago had the fourth largest Irish population in America, behind New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia.

The United States has long been a country of immigrants, shaped by generations seeking freedom, opportunity, and a better ...

Nearly 3 million Russians entered during the first wave of open immigration that began in the late 19th century and continued into the early 20th century. However, only about 20,000 found their way ...

Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.

When studying Latin American history, it’s well known — part of the master narrative — that state-sponsored immigration projects in the 19th century aimed to “whiten” the population. However, we don’t ...

Without immigration, America’s population at the close of the century is projected to decline to about 2. ... also changed markedly over the past several centuries. Throughout the 19th and most of the ...

The last half of the 19th century brought more than 5 million German immigrants to the American Midwest, and more throughout the country. They weren't the first to arrive though — immigration to ...

America's mid-19th Century expansionist agenda of "manifest destiny" seemed ... This nativism resulted in a series of increasingly restrictive immigration policies. The precedent set by the Chinese ...

The United States has long conceived of itself as a haven for immigrants, a place welcoming ... emerge from the political chaos of the mid-19th century. They would survive the challenges of ...

Diana Archibald specializes in the Victorian novel, Charles Dickens, and Anglo-American transatlantic studies, particularly 19th-century immigration. Her latest (co-edited) book, Dickens and ...

Although mid-19th century American immigration law was a veritable Wild West compared with today, it isn’t smart to gamble that at least five justices will distinguish between 19th century Gypsy ...