Columnist Theo Wierdsma opines about the history of immigrants in the U.S., and their importance to the country's culture.

In the early 1900s, the U.S. Bureau of Immigration created a special “Chinese Division” to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which was the first major U.S. immigration law ...

The show places the families in an environment without phones or electricity and challenges them to survive using 19th ...

By locating the roots of American immigration control in cultural prejudice against the Irish and, more essentially, economic concerns about their poverty in nineteenth-century New York and ...