The maxim that “demography is destiny,” commonly attributed to French philosopher Auguste Comte, remains as relevant now as ...

Diana Archibald specializes in the Victorian novel, Charles Dickens, and Anglo-American transatlantic studies, particularly 19th-century immigration. Her latest (co-edited) book, Dickens and ...

US President Donald Trump claimed that “national unity is now returning to America” in an inaugural speech marked by vows to ...

Some background behind the historical ties between the people of Gaza, the West Bank, British Mandate Palestine and the wider Muslim world.

Paper, Color, Line” is on display through April 27 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, features over a ...

The evidence is overwhelming that immigrants in the United States have had a lower crime rate than native-born Americans since at least the 19th century. When people learn that fact, they aren’t ...

A town with a Budweiser House and a Schafferer Museum, where traditional dishes include brennsuppe and Wurst sausages, where ...

Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be ...

In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...

In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

The U.S. military's mission on the border is moving quickly as the White House and the Pentagon are making it a priority to publicize news about the mission.

Combined, the efforts mark a dramatic scaling up of the administration’s enforcement apparatus and reflect Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda. White House deputy chief of staff for policy ...