During the first two decades of the 20th century, the Commissioner-General of Immigration, the head of the federal Bureau of Immigration, constantly used such terms as “artificial ...

After a century of tumultuous change and growth, at the start of the 21st century New York remarkably had come to resemble nothing so much as New York at the start of the 20th century.The ...

From Manhattan’s Cantonese enclave to Flushing, where Mandarin rules, the food and language in city’s Chinatowns tell stories ...

Filipinos emigrated to Chicago throughout the 20th century in small numbers. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which eased previous restrictions, saw a great increase in Philippine ...

Nearly 3 million Russians entered during the first wave of open immigration that began in the late 19th century and continued into the early 20th century. However, only about 20,000 found their way ...

It’s no secret that Ridgewood grew at the dawn of the 20th century thanks to the strength of immigrants who came to the ...

to the way in which the American public perceived the Ku Klux Klan in the early part of the 20th century. Harris, a staunch advocate of more permissive immigration policy, made the comparison ...

The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to deploy the military to enforce laws on US soil, including arresting ...