In the former president’s pitch to voters, historians hear echoes of the nation’s inescapable xenophobic history.

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Nativist cartoons from the 1840s and '50s often used ethnic stereotypes to depict Irish and German immigrants as national threats to the United States. Here, they are depicted as drunken election ...

Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while crossing the Atlantic in so-called "coffin ships" during the 1840s. (As portrayed by Robert Haley in ...

On a dark December evening in 1962, in a village in the west of Ireland, a boy finds a baby. The newborn has been left at the ...

This piece was originally published at the Maine AFL-CIO blog. With the election season in full swing, you’re probably seeing ...

In cartoons, newspaper articles ... There was also a large number of middle-class Irish immigrants, including artists, writers and business people. Many soldiers and officers in the British ...

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris on Friday announced the formal start of the country's general election campaign, hoping to ...

Who do they think they are, these immigrants coming into this country and taking our jobs? Okay, there was that bar recently where I queued 25 minutes to get a drink. “Can’t get staff,” said ...

John Cunningham had been living in the US without papers since 1999 After a high-profile deportation, undocumented Irish immigrants are on edge, and trying to help Latino immigrants who are more ...

It was entertainment straight from the old country in an era when Irish immigrants flocked to Northwest Indiana. "In terms of Northwest Indiana, it's a unique area for Irish immigration," said ...

And this is how unwanted immigrants have been depicted through American history: as enemies of God. In the 19th century, when ...