Long Island Wins

Our series on the anti-immigrant Know Nothing movement of the 1850s answers one of the most common questions about the nativists-Was Lincoln a Know Nothing? This is the final installment of the series. https://longislandwins.com//lincoln-the-know-nothings-and/

The Know Nothings influenced both future anti-immigrant movements and the ways immigrant communities respond to them. https://longislandwins.com//the-lasting-impact-of-the-kno/

The Know Nothings reached their apex just four years before the Civil War began, but then the movement fell off a cliff. Find out why. https://longislandwins.com//the-know-nothings-from-triump/

Chag Pesach Samech. As Passover nears, we are reminded that until the Civil War, the United States Army did not allow rabbis to serve as chaplains. Find out how American Jews won this important victory and how Lincoln got around the prohibition on non-Christian chaplains. https://longislandwins.com//jews-fight-the-ban-on-rabbis-/

Here is a quick overview of the very promising Biden Immigration bill that was unveiled today. https://longislandwins.com//overview-of-the-biden-immigra/

Six years before the election of Abraham Lincoln, a conspiracy theory-driven group of men concluded that the placing of a stone from the Pope in the Washington Monument would be the signal for a nationwide Catholic uprising that would overthrow the American government. These conspiracy theorists, called the Know Nothings, took immediate and illegal action to halt the laying of the Papal stone. This is the first of a series on the Know Nothings. Although immigrants would soon make up a quarter of the Union Army, their experiences at the hands of this powerful and violent secret society alienated them and pushed them to society's margins. https://longislandwins.com//when-hatred-of-immigrants-sto/

Happy New Year! Today we have a new Herstory, a memoir of a girl struggling with language and parting with friends. https://longislandwins.com//stories-for-liberation-i-reme/

Our New Year of Herstory begins with the story of a young girl fresh out of kindergarten. https://longislandwins.com//stories-for-liberation-i-rem/r

How German immigrant cartoonist Thomas Nast invented the modern image of Santa Claus during the Civil War. Nast, known for his hard bitten political cartoons and illustrations of the war, emancipation, developed the modern vision of Santa Claus over two decades of Christmas cartoons for Harper's. https://longislandwins.com//german-refugee-thomas-nast-in/