Frederick Kramer migrated from the city of Halle, Prussia, to Boston, Mass., in 1848. He was 19 years old. In 1852, he enlisted in the Seventh Cavalry E Company of the U.S. Army, which took him to ...

In the former president’s pitch to voters, historians hear echoes of the nation’s inescapable xenophobic history.

The history of hot dogs in Chicago dates back to the 1850s when German immigrants began bringing sausages into the ... they ...

Alison Clark Efford describes how the presence of naturalized citizens affected the status of former slaves and identifies 1870 as a crucial turning point. That year, the Franco-Prussian War prompted ...

While the sudden influx of primarily Irish and German immigrants did give way to anti ... It mandated a ban on Chinese immigration for 10 years. Post the 1870s, after the U.S. Civil War, the country ...

The origins of the Chicago-style hot dog go back more than a century and the locally-loved staple has seen several changes ...

Sometimes we forget our history. In 1870, 34% of Dakota Territory was foreign born. That wave continued, and by 1915, nearly 80% of North Dakotans were either immigrants or the children of immigrants.

The world's earliest pies are nothing like the tasty pies we know today. But certain key points in history helped to define ...

The devastation of Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE is one of the best-recorded disasters in human history.

When immigrant fishermen, mostly from Riva Trigoso, Italy, arrived in Capitola in the mid-1870s, F.A. Hihn leased ... Portuguese and German fishermen who sent daily catches to local markets ...

It’s one vote, so it’s natural to be deeply invested. At its core, that’s the dynamic that has been playing out during the ...