Filling up a space of 3.8 million square miles, Canada has an incredible array of ingredients that have helped build the ...

Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College and Julie Novkov, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) One of President Donald Trump’s first executive orders relating to ...

Incidents of violence against Chinese immigrants were prevalent in the 19th century. Nineteen were killed by a mob in the Los Angeles Chinese Massacre in 1871.

19th-century Supreme Court case takes center stage in birthright citizenship appeal The Supreme Court's 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark granted citizenship to the American-born child of ...

Michael Luo’s Strangers in the Land tells heart-wrenching stories of exclusion, racism and violence directed at Chinese immigrants to the US.

In the mid-19th century, Chinese immigrants built much of the developing American West. The community was often met with hostility and violence.

The influx of Chinese immigrants to the West Coast during the mid- to late 19th century, initially fueled by the California Gold Rush, spurred the rise of an influential nativist movement that ...

The nearly century-and-a-half-old Marysville celebration highlights the once bustling Chinese community the area saw in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Banning Chinese immigration laid the groundwork for further restrictions. At the end of the 19th century, increasing numbers of Eastern and Southern Europeans began to arrive in the United States.

In fact, as Prof. Ferdinand Philip Victoria's research has shown, Chinese immigrants in the 19th century were engaged in the business of narcotics and illegal gambling (among others), often with ...

Before the end of the 19th century, the number of immigrants from outside western and northern Europe was still relatively small — meaning their 2% quotas would be minuscule.