Before Columbus was a city, some of the area’s earliest migrants came to the Refugee Tract. This land was aside in 1801 by Congress to provide land compensation for residents of Nova Scotia who had ...
Learn more about the "immigration crisis" in Missouri as part of Kellerman Foundation speaker series
Discover how 19th-century Missourians “invented the immigration crisis” and shaped today’s border debates at a Kellerman ...
Part of a series for the Des Moines Register's 175th anniversary that examines Iowa's past and future demographics. In 1837, Joel C. Garretson built a cabin in the woods in what is now Henry County.
One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the most notorious immigration legislation in American history. Signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduced ...
2017-06-25T18:19:52-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a95/20170625182206003_hd.jpgHistorian Hidetaka Hirota talked about his book on Irish immigration, Expelling ...
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