The Know-Nothings: the United States' first anti-immigration party. Conceived in fear and prejudice in the 1800s, the short-lived Know-Nothing Party's intolerance toward German and Irish ...

OpEd: President Abraham Lincoln decried the Know Nothings xenophobic anti-immigration plank, which has a deadly history in Kentucky.

Unfortunately, we have been here before. In 1844, the Native American Party, a nativist party that quickly came to be known first as the American Party and then the Know Nothing Party, was formed ...

Know Nothings also demanded that Irish paupers be hunted down, arrested and sent back to Erin. Trump promises to expel undocumented immigrants via “the largest deportation in the history of our ...

As a result, city Know Nothings withdrew their support from Kieffer and helped elect Jacob Albright as a Know Nothing mayor in 1855. The party declined throughout 1855 and 1856.

OpEd: President Abraham Lincoln decried the Know Nothings xenophobic anti-immigration plank, which has a deadly history in Kentucky.