John Bapst, a Swiss Jesuit priest, arrived in New York City in 1848 just as Know Nothing bigotry gathered force in the...
The town of Northampton, Mass., owes its extraordinary Forbes Library to an opinionated judge, a president of the United States and a...
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...