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Immigrant Soldier of the Civil War to Be Honored July 30 in Richwood, Mn.

An immigrant soldier who served in the Union Army of the Potomac will have his grave dedication on Saturday at Richwood Lutheran Cemetery in Richwood,…

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The Suffering of Immigrants in North Carolina December 1868

Many Southern states made attempts to encourage immigration to replace Black labor lost through the end of slavery. While some European and Chinese immigrants did…

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“Irishmen And Germans Read This” The Mongrel Party’s Attack on Immigrants June, 1868

With the election of 1868, Democratic propaganda combined immigrant fears of the latent Know Nothingism of some Republicans and white immigrants’ concerns about their own…

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Map Shows Where Reconstruction Era Irish Immigrants Lived in U.S.

My friend Damian Shiels at Irish in the American Civil War posted this fascinating map from the Census Bureau based on the 1880 enumeration. It…

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When a Ban on Chinese Immigration Was Proposed in 1867 Frederick Douglass Stood Up in Opposition

Americans’ fear of non-white, non-Christian immigrants began in 1848 with the arrival of the first ship full of Chinese in San Francisco Bay. The Chinese…

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