Nativist cartoons from the 1840s and '50s often used ethnic stereotypes to depict Irish and German immigrants as national threats to the United States. Here, they are depicted as drunken election ...

Supporting immigrants in this country is about American greatness because American greatness has always depended on ...

For every immigrant who came to America fleeing political ... was motivation enough—from the Irish victims of the Potato Famine in the 1840s to the Mexicans and other Latin Americans of the ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while ...

Boston had been on a mission. The 1840s were the city's greatest decade of reform. When the city was flooded with immigrants of a different type and number than it had ever received, its citizens ...

Undocumented immigrants now have an opportunity at obtaining a home loan in California. Assembly Bill 1840 was passed by the state senate last month which specifies that if applicants of the ...