Between 1840 and 1860, America received more than four and a half million people from foreign countries as permanent residents, including a huge influx of newco

"This book is about citizenship, or membership in a political community, and Lincoln's evolving understanding of who belonged and who didn't belong in that comm

Although the United States has always portrayed itself as a sanctuary for the world's victim's of poverty and oppression, anti-immigrant movements have enjoyed

Meet the man who encouraged Lincoln's rise to the presidency. After being ousted from Germany in 1833 for his radical ideas, Gustav Koerner moved to Illinois to