The United States has long conceived of itself as a haven for immigrants, a place welcoming of any person, no matter their origin, to begin a new life as an American. Flying in the face of this ...

By 1830, 30,000 newcomers a year landed at Quebec ... This growth was generated by a wave of immigration from the British Isles. About 30,000 immigrants landed each year in Quebec City, the ...

“They came up here for the garden dedication in 1929.” An influx of German immigrants first began arriving in Cleveland in the 1830s, settling along Lorain Street in Brooklyn and around ...

When immigrants did move in to the newly fashionable ... near the college. By the 1830s, an elite corporation governed Harvard, and students of elite families filled its halls.