In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a federal holiday at the urging of prominent Italian American ...

Carefully applying advanced data analytics to census and other records, Leah Boustan and Ran Abramitzky show that ...

The only way to access the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island is by using the official National Park Service ferry operator, ...

Hydro-Quebec has finally agreed to commemorate the 6,000 Irish immigrants who died from typhus after coming to Montreal to ...

A growing number of Americans are pointing to immigration as a top concern heading ... up and down the West Coast in the mid-to-late-19th century that included dozens of instances of harassment ...

The 900-acre 3 Creeks Ranch includes three homes that date to the mid-19th century and was cobbled together from three ...

Columbus children didn't really begin dressing in costumes and going door-to-door for treats for Halloween until the early ...

The Democrat’s sense of vulnerability on the issue may explain why she’s been reticent about the Republican’s ...

It was a despicable foreigner-bashing attack line for Vance after years of blaming immigrants for crime, contagious diseases and lost cats. Three years ago, he blamed 19th-century Irish ...

Two PA lawmakers want to encourage social studies classes statewide to explore how students' families came here.

even as Black immigrants in this country lack visibility. “This kind of narrative has been going on since at least the middle of the 19th century,” said Danielle N. Boaz, professor of Africana Studies ...

Wool - If you are labelled a wool, you are not considered a true Scouser. The dictionary says this one is an abbreviated form ...