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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In the 1830s, Irish laborers dug the Illinois & Michigan ... up such shanties as they were able,” the Tribune noted. Other immigrants from Ireland soon followed. “They were either so ...

The key events in the migration to Scotland between 1830s and 1905.

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.

With a history of Polish migration dating back to the 1830s – and more than one million people of ... and in the mid-1860s, he opened a Polish immigration agency. He was soon joined by about 30 ...

Experience of immigrants to Scotland 1880s-1939 During ... Scottish emigration 1830s-1939 A number of factors forced or encouraged people to leave Scotland after 1830. The Highland Clearances ...

She was the first Black woman to publicly address other women, using essays and lectures in the 1830s to champion their rights and challenge oppression. By Annik LaFarge This article is part of ...