Prejudice and discrimination against immigrants increased markedly, especially during the Progressive Era from the 1890s to the 1920s. Almost since the country’s founding, Americans have debated ...

Just a decade ago, he writes, progressive intellectuals such as Glenn Greenwald, Paul Krugman, and even Barack Obama at least acknowledged the costs of immigration. In fact, Krugman outright ...

As Progressive Era social reformers (many of whom did not ... foreigners emerged as an easy target. Unfettered immigration provided an endless supply of both foreign prostitutes and foreign ...

The neighborhood was home to new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe ... and built the architecture for the Progressive Era. One of Jane Addams’s biographers, Jean Bethke Elshtain, summarized ...

Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late 1800s, up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dr. Rachel ...