“It was not seen as something that needed to be hidden,” she said. Lew-Williams delivered a virtual lecture, “The Chinese Must Go: A History of Anti-Asian Violence,” on Sept. 28 as part of the Lowell ...

Mae Ngai, author of [The Chinese Question], talked about the late 19th century California gold rushes and the friction between Chinese immigrants and white settlers. She described how, during this ...

A pair of Levi's jeans sold for more than $75,000. Don't worry. Inflation hasn't gotten that bad. The (really, really) old pair of jeans hails from the 19th century. The jeans were put up for bid ...

Archaeologists excavating in a Utah ghost town have turned up a rare find: a house belonging to 19th-century Chinese workers on the transcontinental railroad.