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

During the 19th century most of the Irish immigrants came from Ulster. Between 1876 and 1883 around 83 per cent of Irish immigrants came from the North of Ireland - around 25 per cent of these ...

Also in the 1840s, Irish immigrants came to America seeking a new life due to the potato famine. The new opportunities presented in Iowa also drew immigrants from Great Britain, Canada ...

And this is how unwanted immigrants have been depicted through American history: as enemies of God. In the 19th century, when virtually all politicians were Protestant, anti-Catholic politicians ...

And John Lawrence Sullivan, Tyson rightly understood, had laid the foundations upon which those very traditions had been built. The son of a Kerry father and a Roscommon mother, Sullivan was a ...

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

This piece was originally published at the Maine AFL-CIO blog. With the election season in full swing, you’re probably seeing ...

For a long time in the 19th century, we didn’t really have ... Huge numbers of Jewish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Irish immigrants come here during that time. But then there’s really ...

OpEd: President Abraham Lincoln decried the Know Nothings xenophobic anti-immigration plank, which has a deadly history in ...

It is fitting that Samhain, now transformed into Halloween, should still be celebrated with pumpkins and ghosts in modern ...

Irish immigrants brought their traditions and celebrations to the United States in the 19th century. The Celts called it ...

In the 19th century, when virtually all politicians were Protestant, anti-Catholic politicians accused Irish immigrants of bearing the “mark of the Beast” and being loyal to the “Antichrist ...