For almost a half-century after the annexation of Texas in 1845, the flow was barely a trickle. In fact, there was a ...

Mae Ngai is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University.

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 ...

We are an immigrant nation. Yet, there have always been problems associated with the newcomers. German-speaking people constituted the largest number of new Pennsylvanians during the colonial period.

100 years ago today, America committed its biggest immigration blunder when President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act. As we commemorate the anniversary, most of the conversation ...

The Inspection Room at Ellis Island in New York circa 1910. The Inspection Room at Ellis Island in New York circa 1910. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group—Getty Images In February, ...

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 ...

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 ...