On October 7, 1870, one of those minor, anecdotal episodes that pepper History amidst greater events took place. A hydrogen ...

On June 24, Boston fire crews rushed over to Jacob Wirth, a restaurant on Stuart Street about a block from the Common. News ...

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 ...

The Chicago-style hot dog is a unique combination of ingredients that reflects the city’s rich and diverse history, with ...

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 ...

Immigrants help grow Canada’s future. According to Statistics Canada, immigrants are making important contribution across every sector of Canada’s economy. As of May 2021, immigrants aged 25 to 54 ...

Usually, though, he focuses on immigrants, people whom he blames for everything from rising crime (which isn’t happening) to limited hurricane relief efforts. There’s an aspect of this that ...

The auto maker’s top employee representative told workers that management planned to shutter three German factories to cut costs amid slumping sales. By Melissa Eddy Melissa Eddy covers ...