The Know Nothings fell back on nativist clubs and fraternal organizations—notably, the ridiculously named Order of the Star Spangled Banner—while the Republicans quickly constructed a party ...

Elsewhere, Know Nothing gangs patrolled the polls, wielding clubs and pitchforks, demanding to see naturalization papers, and threatening those who looked or sounded foreign, inciting riots in ...

A Know-Nothing chapter was formed in San Francisco to oppose Chinese immigration. In the presidential election of 1856, Millard Fillmore ran as the Know-Nothing candidate.

The Know-Nothings formed a political movement that briefly became a major political party in the United States in the mid-1800s. Similar to QAnon and portions of the Republican Party base today ...

These days calling someone a “know-nothing” could mean one of two things. If you’re a student of history, you might be comparing that person to a member of the Know Nothing party of the ...