The biggest waves of German immigration to the U.S., however, took place in the 1800s, said Volker Benkert, a history professor at Arizona State University. Some German-speaking immigrants were ...

By the thousands, German immigrants in the 1800s settled here in “die Alte Sud Ende” — the Old South End — and their industries and ambitions helped build Columbus into what it is today.

The Turnhalle building at the southwest corner of Ninth and Rhode Island Streets. In the mid-1800s, German immigrants in Lawrence were spread throughout town, forming their own groups and ...

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 ...

The brewery was built by German immigrant Heinrich Ludwig Kreische in approximately 1870, with events at the site commencing soon after. “Bluff SchuetzenFest reimagines and builds upon the ...

By 1860, nearly half of all immigrants living in Ohio were German, with the rest mostly coming ... Irish and anti-Chinese sentiment in the late 1800s. Amidst the Great Migration following World ...

Historians are particularly concerned about losing examples of an architectural style that was popular among working-class German immigrants in the 1800s. German American folk houses, also known ...

U.S. Census figures show Iowa’s population skyrocketing in its first three decades, from 1840 to 1870, with the influx during the 1800s fueled primarily by German immigrants who left their home ...