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 ...

Berlin — Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work and ...

In the opening struggles for control of Europe, the United States used economic aid to support the democracies of Western ...

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

Opinion writer Ally Boos shares her experience as an exchange student in Germany and how this experience made her more ...

One mountain range in Arizona is shrouded in superstition and has also played host to many disappearing hikers each year.

It's no secret that U.S. presidents get to try so many types of food from around the world, but some of their favorite ...

It was a simple request. When I asked Annie Polland, director of the Tenement Museum on New York’s Lower East Side, whether I could bring my undergraduate NYU journalism class to learn about the ...

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.

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

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 ...

How is it going to work?” Migrant workers bring diversity to a heartland town Near her family farm, Julie Robinson attends the same Baptist church founded by Scandinavian immigrants in the 1870s where ...