The Nebraska Legislature established a three-member Board of Immigration and an appointive office of commissioner of immigration to facilitate foreign immigration into the state. The commissioner was ...

American history shows that people can express their patriotism in many languages — and they can just as easily express ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

The Trump administration appears to have removed a Department of Justice webpage that detailed a study finding undocumented ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the country thrived in the 1890s, when tariffs were high, but historians say ...

Our country was the richest ever from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were ... We were open for immigration and we indeed had massive immigration. We were open to capital from the rest of the ...

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

A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.

Even before statehood, it allowed immigrants to vote before they were ... Four Midwestern states between 1848 and 1870 published their draft constitutions in some combination of German, Norwegian ...