January’s figures breaks the prior record set in 1890, and reflects a significant change in the status quo. Just two years ago, the Census Bureau projected that the foreign-born would not reach ...

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In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the country thrived in the 1890s, when tariffs were high, but historians say ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911 ...

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Was America really at its wealthiest from 1870 ... He championed the Tariff Act of 1890, which set the then-highest import tax in U.S. history. “It led to an increase in prices, a kind of ...

The number and share of the U.S. population that is foreign-born or are immigrants reached record highs in January 2025, according to a report.

She was known simply as Martha. Her Worth Avenue salon, which debuted in the 1940s, was for decades a fashion epicenter.