Unlike the Scandinavian and German immigrant farmers of the 19th century, the new immigrants ... For so many of these immigrants from Europe, they are coming from small cities or small towns ...

Three waves of immigrants settled prehistoric Europe. The last ... where it was spoken and by whom has been debated since the 19th century. According to one theory, it was the Neolithic farmers ...

Many mid-19th century French immigrants were political refugees who left France following the 1848 revolutions that swept through Europe. Scottish immigrants founded the Illinois Saint Andrew ...

and Norway throughout the late 19th century, and for Italy, Portugal, and Spain by the end of the century. The lower rates achieved by other countries are still high by modern standards. New World ...

Immigrants, including those who arrived in America in desperate poverty, from very different cultures and societies, have ...

caused European immigrants to migrate there during the 19th century. But as Simon Bronner, a professor at Penn State Harrisburg and the founding director of the Center for Pennsylvania Culture ...

The Black Hawk War with Indigenous people in 1832 opened the Iowa territory for settlement to immigrants primarily with European heritage, and come they did — an increasing number directly from ...

There were also many German immigrants in the 19th century. Many bakeries were German-run and the ‘full English’ breakfast was in fact a German import. Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert ...

Halloween in the United States has its roots in the traditions of European immigrants, particularly the Irish and Scottish.

The holiday, originally brought to the United States by European immigrants in the 19th century, didn’t make its mark at the White House until 1958. First lady Mamie Eisenhower introduced the first ...

During the 19th century the legal status of Jews in Britain steadily improved. In 1830 Jews were allowed to trade freely. In 1858 the first Jewish Member of Parliament (MP) Lionel de Rothschild ...