A law designed to repair flaws in the fabric of American justice also created new ones. At...
Immigration
In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out ‘undesirable’ newcomers. The Dillingham Commission...
An entrepreneur, hunter, woodsman, scientist, and artist — John James Audubon, famous for his epic The Birds...
A 16th-century folk art was her passport from Sicily to Upstate New York. By Kathleen GarrettActress The...
My great-great grandmother missed the gentle, green valleys of Germany, but our Jewish family needed a new...
Outrage over the revolt that spurred the U.S. to deliver on a promise of the Revolution. The...
Presuming that immigration was a boon to national security, U.S. borders remained mostly open for the first...
Lebanese factory workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1890-1950. Originally published by North Carolina State University, August 2018, republished...
Growing up American in India instilled in me a deep curiosity about foreign lands – including my...
Growing up in suburban Virginia, our Italian-American family relied on my grandmother to bring us the foods...
After an arduous journey emigrating from Vietnam in the 70s, the author benefited from both personal resilience...
The mostly Eastern European victims were forgotten because of an ensuing backlash against immigrant workers. At the...
Examining different time periods and ethnic groups to document the history of a city where immigrants have...
Fully one in four Union fighters was foreign-born. In the summer of 1861, an American diplomat in...
Women immigrants have played a dynamic role in transforming America socially, politically, and economically. A Woman’s Story...
Until today, she was the only first lady born outside the U.S.. She had to prove herself...
The “Roma” and Travelers are not a single, homogeneous group of people. The terms Gypsies, Roma, and...
After capturing Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusaders established several states in former Byzantine territory. Starting from...
Chinese immigration to the United States was a result of European and American imperialism in Asia on...
The first statute in the United States to codify naturalization law. Alternately known as the Nationality Act,...
The empire of course had many great strengths, but one of the most important keys to its...
Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to profound changes...
The years 1816 to 1819 saw the last wave of immigration into the United States that basically...
It has meant different things to different people at different times, which is part of its genius....
The emergence of colonial migration circuits between Europe and Asia followed the ascendency of European mercantile and...
Eastern and Western, feminine and masculine, motherly yet ready for war, the sculpture holds a multitude of...
An overview of the “new immigration” that originated from Southern and Eastern Europe and American responses to...
The beginnings of Hamburg’s Jewish community are linked to the Jews’ expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula at...
There was an outpouring of anti-immigrant rhetoric during the years between the first and second world wars...
There are lessons from ancient history that could prove instructive. A caravan of Goths – the Thervingi...