As some have pointed out (Letters, April 3), U.S. tariffs were declining in the late 1800s, and the link between tariffs and economic growth is illusory at best.

Agriculture is one of Idaho’s top industries, and its history is steeped in immigration, from the Basque sheepherders of the late 1800s to today’s Dutch-born dairy farmers who spent their ...

In its first decades, the United States had encouraged free and open immigration to settle land, build the economy and boost the population. That changed in the late 1800s as immigration surged ...

The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s, according to a New York Times analysis of ...

How Immigration Remade the U.S. Labor Force A historic influx of migrants has changed the size, makeup and outlook of the U.S. labor market and the economy By Paul Kiernan ...