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 ...

To the editor — A recent writer waxed nostalgic about his ancestors coming to America at the end of the 19th century and becoming successful farmers ("Immigrants pulled themselves up from the bottom ...

The Kellerman Foundation continued its speaker series on Sunday with a lecture on the history of immigration in ...

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 ...

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 ...