Only by taking an extended breather was America able to successfully assimilate the 25 million-plus newcomers who’d arrived after 1880. The pause in immigration led to a half-century-long ...

“ The Invention of Immigration Exceptionalism ,” published in November by Adam Cox in the Yale Law Journal, runs 117 pages.

In 1921, Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Quota Acts, a conscious choice of the American public to halt the 1880-1920 “Great Wave” of eastern and southern European immigration (which ...

BEN WATTENBERG: Through the early 1800s, immigration to America had looked like this: primarily English, Scottish, German and Scandinavian. But between 1880 and the 1920s the flow changed.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...

In 1880, when a new wave of immigrants began to arrive in the United States, they moved to American cities, not to the countryside as immigrants had for 250 years. Immigrants took jobs in the new ...