When Salvatore Pugliese disembarked the S.S. America at Ellis Island after two weeks at sea, an immigration officer grilled the 17-year-old tailor. Was he a polygamist? An anarchist? Did he advocate ...

Anti-immigration sentiments have a long history of being tied to times of hardship: diseases, economic downturns and war. U.S. immigration history professor Erika Lee speaks with NPR's Ailsa Chang. In ...

NEW YORK (AP) – When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom. Now, as the crowds come together to mark the 50th anniversary of that seminal event in ...

In 1876, France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a monument to republican liberty. Conceived by French abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye and built by artist Frédéric Auguste ...

IMMIGRATION: An American History. By Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner. Yale University Press. 416 pages. $40. In some ways, nothing has changed. Throughout the long story of immigration to North ...

For four years, History Prof. Robert Forrant and Asst. Prof. Ingrid Hess of Art & Design have quietly charted the broad history of immigration in Lowell. With the help of a team of UML students , they ...

The proportion of immigrants in the United States is at its highest level in over a century, but that's not the case in Ohio. Around 15% of the national population is comprised of immigrants, compared ...

'The Rhode Island Ethnic Heritage Pamphlet Series,' edited by Patrick T. Conley. Rhode Island Publications Society, $49. Rhode Island Historian Laureate Patrick T. Conley has recently reassembled a ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. On August 10, 1988, Ronald Reagan proclaimed, “America stands unique in the world: the ...

Trucks drove through Chicago’s Southeast Side, telling Mexicans to return to their native country while offering to relocate all of their belongings. La Voz Sidebar Lee este artículo en español en La ...

“We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago, binds the country inevitably for the future,” Vance said. Vance said the United States should admit “far ...

Residents of Japanese ancestry appear for registration prior to evacuation on April 25, 1942 in San Francisco, Calif. Dorothea Lange / National Archives Wiki Commons On August 10, 1988, Ronald Reagan ...