The 19th-century European immigrants to Wisconsin arrived with polkas ringing in their ears. The polka, a lively couples dance in 2/4 time, had developed from folk roots and became a European ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pogrom is a premeditated, organized, violent riot with the aim of threatening, intimidating, and massacring Jews, made ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two Guatemalans wearing traditional embroidered skirts bought coconut boba teas on an October afternoon at the bustling ...

COLUMN. The leaders of the first wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine at the end of the 19th century were already in no ...

In celebration of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, a Liberty Bell replica was dedicated ...

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 ...