The United States has long been a country of immigrants, shaped by generations seeking freedom, opportunity, and a better ...

Late in the 19th century, immigration surged, as did alarm about it, especially in society’s upper crust, particularly its Boston portion, which thought that the wrong sort of people were coming.

Immigration tends to happen in waves ... arrive Irish immigrants swept into the city in the middle of the 19th century amid a horrific potato blight, which decimated the crop that fed the country ...

When the great period of immigration began in the 19th century, population growth in both Europe and Asia outstripped the available farmland, displacing millions and sending many to America ...

Diana Archibald specializes in the Victorian novel, Charles Dickens, and Anglo-American transatlantic studies, particularly 19th-century immigration. Her latest (co-edited) book, Dickens and ...

Welsh people had been a significant part of the religious Quaker migration to the USA, but by the later 19th century areas such as Pennsylvania and Ohio saw a high economic demand for Welsh ...

His research at Columbia focused on the 19th century immigration of Muslims from the Caucasus and the Crimea regions, and their role in transforming late Ottoman Anatolia.