For American Jews in the early 1900s, it was American to oppose immigration in order to protect America. Yet it was Jewish to support Jews.

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

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Graham’s MAGA God might be unrecognizable to tens of millions of Americans, but a new poll released today by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute shows that two thirds (67 percent) of ...

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In a move that could supercharge the government's deportation forces, the Trump administration late Thursday deputized thousands more federal law enforcement officers to arrest immigrants in the ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...

Even the New York from the turn of the century, beloved in television ... Between 1892 and 1954, some 12 million immigrants ...

The law, signed by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878, prohibits direct involvement by federal troops in law enforcement. But it can be trumped by the Insurrection Act.