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Side by side photos of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump.

How Republicans Went From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Trump, in 13 Maps

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.
by Andrew Prokop via Vox on July 20, 2016

The Old West’s Muslim Tamale King

How a South Asian immigrant became a Wyoming fast-food legend and received American citizenship - twice.
by Kathryn Schulz via The New Yorker on June 6, 2016

The Disastrous, Forgotten 1996 Law That Created Today's Immigration Problem

Why the Clinton Administration is to blame for creating a permanent underclass of undocumented immigrants.
by Dara Lind via Vox on April 28, 2016

How Women Mapped the Upheaval of 19th Century America

The second part in a series exploring little-seen contributions to cartography.
by Laura Bliss via CityLab on March 23, 2016

Japanese American WWII Incarceration

FDR cited military necessity as the basis for incarcerating 120,000 Japanese Americans.
by Natasha Varner via Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment on February 9, 2016
European immigrants in line at Ellis Island.

How Immigrants Fit Into America's Economy, Now and 100 Years Ago

Compared to 19th-century arrivals, today's new arrivals are much more likely to be at the extreme ends of the earnings spectrum.
by Gillian B. White via The Atlantic on January 24, 2016
Slave revolt in Haiti.

The History of the United States’ First Refugee Crisis

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.
by Nicholas Foreman via Smithsonian on January 5, 2016
Calvin Coolidge, Grace Coolidge, and Senator Charles Curtis.

Donald Trump and the Return of the 1920s

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.
by Richard Yeselson via The Atlantic on December 30, 2015

Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era

The fears that were conjured by nativists 80 years ago are chillingly similar to what we're hearing today.
by Lee Fang via The Intercept on November 18, 2015

When People Flee to America’s Shores

We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Yet we always fear who is coming next.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on November 17, 2015
Lyndon Johnson exits a helicopter.

Fifty Years On, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Continues to Reshape the United States

An analysis of the significance, unintended consequences, and implications ofthe 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act fifty years later.
by Muzaffar Chishti, Faye Hipsman, Isabel Ball via Migration Policy Institute on October 15, 2015

Measuring Race and Ethnicity Across the Decades: 1790–2010

U.S. Census classifications through the centuries reflect broad changes in the way Americans understand race and ethnicity.
via United States Census Bureau on September 4, 2015

Donald Trump Meet Wong Kim Ark

He was the Chinese-American cook who became the father of ‘birthright citizenship.’
by Fred Barbash via Washington Post on August 31, 2015

200 Years of Immigration to the U.S.

A visualization of who came from where, when.
by Talia Bronshtein via Insightful Interaction on February 25, 2015

The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.

By supporting repressive governments, the U.S. has fueled the violence that has caused tens of thousands of kids to flee north.
by Alexander Main via Dissent on July 30, 2014
Map of Sterling Heights

What Explains Michigan's Large Arab American Community?

Why has Michigan continued to draw so many immigrants from the Arab world, creating one of the largest Arab communities outside the Middle East?
by Sarah Cwiek via Michigan Radio on July 9, 2014
Names in Ellis Island log of immigrants.

Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was)

It is more likely that immigrants were their own agents of change.
by Philip Sutton via The New York Public Library on July 2, 2013
Painting representing the Great Migration: African Americans going through gates to Chicago, New York, and St. Louis.

The Changing Definition of African-American

How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American.
by Ira Berlin via Smithsonian on February 1, 2010

Great Migration Debates: Keywords in Historical Perspective

The use of the word "immigrant" in contemporary debates often reflects a lack of understanding of U.S. immigration history.
by Donna Gabaccia via Social Science Research Council on July 28, 2006

Remarks at the Signing of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Liberty Island, New York, October 3, 1965.
by Lyndon Baines Johnson via LBJ Presidential Library on October 3, 1965
Lyndon Johnson.

Special Message to the Congress on Immigration

In early 1965, President Johnson made the case to Congress for comprehensive immigration reform.
by Lyndon Baines Johnson via The American Presidency Project on January 13, 1965

Trans-National America

In 1916, Randolph Bourne challenged widespread nativism by calling for a reconsideration of the “melting-pot” theory.
by Randolph S. Bourne via The Atlantic on July 5, 1916
Woodrow Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson Vetoes Literacy Requirements for Immigrants

In this 1915 letter to Congress, President Wilson explains his decision to reject new immigration restrictions.
by Woodrow Wilson via The American Presidency Project on January 28, 1915
The Communist National Convention at its first session on June 24, 1936, at the Manhattan Opera House in New York City.

The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left

Thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel. They are taking part in a tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism.
by Benjamin Balthaser via Jacobin on July 21, 2025
Romani American Birthday Party, c. 1960, courtesy of Portland Art Museum

The Case of the Missing Romani American History

And why we should find it.
by Ann Ostendorf via History Workshop on July 15, 2025
Tornado over the Texas capitol building.

The History of Eugenics in Texas Isn’t What You Think

A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.
by Gus Bova via Texas Observer on July 14, 2025
Deportees walk in a line while coordinators stand nearby in reflective yellow vests.

The Sordid History of Offshoring Migrants

Trump is only the latest to embrace a costly and immoral tactic.
by David Scott FitzGerald via Foreign Affairs on July 10, 2025
Five men sharing a meal in Qing dynasty China.

Splitting Hairs

Chinese immigrants, the queue, and the boundaries of political citizenship.
by Sarah Gold McBride via The Public Domain Review on July 9, 2025
Samuel Gompers the president of the American Federation of Labor in December 1920.

America’s Brutal Capitalist Class Tamed Its Labor Movement

The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provider.
by Maya Adereth via Jacobin on July 7, 2025
New citizens at a naturalization ceremony.

Our Cherished Values and Ideals

Celebrating immigrants on the nation's birthday.
by Marc Stein via Political Junkie on July 4, 2025
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