The "Know Nothing" admonitions for secrecy were superficial at best, and the party platform became abundantly clear as it garnered ever increasing national attention and support.

Know Nothings were the American political system’s first major third party. Early in the 19th century, two parties leftover from the birth of the United States were the Federalists ...

Members were dubbed “Know-Nothings” because they were supposed to reply — like Sgt. Schultz on "Hogan’s Heroes" — “I know nothing” if a stranger asked about the party.

Elected Know Nothings installed sweeping programs to trample any Catholic influence on American politics. They required reading the Protestant bible in schools, purged Catholic objects from public ...

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 ...

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-Nothing judge, however, like a 1970s French literary theorist, denies we can ever know what Congress really means to do when it passes a law. And why should we care anyhow?