Historian speaks on the history of immigration in Missouri
Jefferson County Library - Northwest Branch 5680 Missouri PP, High RidgeInventing Immigration Crises in 19th-Century Missouri Who counts as an American? It was a question that plagued nineteenth-century politics, as German and Irish immigrants arrived in unprecedented numbers. On an election day in 1854, St. Louis witnessed one of the nation’s largest anti-immigrant riots. Rioters sabotaged an election and murdered at least ten people. Historian […]
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