"Immigration presented a constitutional and political problem in the nineteenth-century United States. Until the 1870s, the federal government played only a ver
Looks at what life was like for Africans forced into slavery and discusses how these enslaved immigrants held on to their dignity and traditions against all odd
There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human right
Baseler explains how British and colonial officials and landowners lured settlers from rival nations with promises of religious toleration, economic opportunity
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing
