19th and 20th Century Immigration lesson plan. Before Columbus was a city, some of the area’s earliest migrants came to the Refugee Tract. This land was aside in 1801 by Congress to provide land ...

Looking back as a historian of immigration and religion, I'm struck by three changes in U.S. views of immigration over the course of the 19th century.. Religion, more than race. By the 20th ...

As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th birthday, it looks at how immigration propelled Iowa's 19th-century growth, could do so again, expert says.

No population in the United States has more experience with unwanted immigrants than Indigenous Americans. Now, officials ...

But in the late 19th century, immigration to the U.S. underwent a dramatic shift, with more southern and eastern Europeans arriving. "The new immigration was really important in places like ...

As the prolific author Harold Holzer tells us in “Brought Forth on This Continent,” his exhaustive account of Abraham Lincoln and 19th-century immigration politics, Harrison Gray Otis of ...

France has the longest history of immigration in Europe. In the 19 th century, while the English, Irish, Germans, Scandinavians and Italians were leaving the continent in droves to set up home in ...