Amazing pictures of 19th century Sydney show life for women in an era when it was a 'rough man's town' The never before seen photographs show how women of all classes were able to mix for the ...

Unlike the Scandinavian and German immigrant farmers of the 19th century, the new immigrants clustered in ... He had only a few minutes to look at pictures and draw in what was missing.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, immigration to the U.S. was at its peak. In 1890, 14.8% of people living in the U.S. were immigrants. Many people felt concerned about immigration in the U ...

A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the statue can be admired from several different vantage points around Manhattan, including ...

They can face dangerous gangs and treacherous terrain on their way to a heavily militarized border, but every day people continue to take their chances and try to enter the United States illegally ...

Via Vox, the Pew Research Center tabulated Census records going back to 1850 to see which countries sent the most immigrants to each state at different points in the country's history.

Customizable menus and unique offerings like flamenco dancers, cigar rollers, fireworks and custom signage are available at ...

artifacts and other materials that collectively tell the story of late 19th-/early 20th-century immigrants who settled in the Kenilworth area (formerly known as New Orange) and contributed to the ...

David T. Gleeson Source: American Historical Review 'An important new book on the literature of ethnicity in the nineteenth century, Alison Clark Efford's German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in ...

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 ...

I’m also working on a digital archiving project that explores the lives of immigrants who were medically incarcerated in New York in the nineteenth century. This project uses computational methods to ...