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 ...

At the centre of the immigration debate is the notion of “welfare magnetism”: the idea that migrants are drawn to Germany by ...

The last half of the 19th century brought more than 5 million German immigrants to the ... They weren't the first to arrive though — immigration to the United States began at the end of the ...