"Here you get a piece of land the size of a county in Germany," a settler who emigrated to Brazil wrote enthusiastically to his family in 1827. The settlers needed space — for their houses ...

Thousands of people emigrated to America across the Atlantic Ocean to escape this famine. In 1841, Ireland had a population of just over eight million. Approximately half of this population ...

Ultimately nearly two million people emigrated. Victims and survivors of a pogrom against the Jews of Proskurov, Ukraine, during the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The word pogrom ...