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Field of Dreams

Migrant futboleros in greater Mexico.

by Romeo Guzman via Boom California on June 13, 2018

Piecing Together a Border’s History, One Love Letter at a Time

Finding a puzzle from the past in a family member’s basement.

by Miroslava Chávez-García via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 16, 2018

How Crossing the US-Mexico Border Became a Crime

Only in the past 100 years has unauthorized immigration become a crime.

by Kelly Lytle Hernández via The Conversation on April 30, 2017

Border patrol guarding a group of men sitting on the ground.

The Long History of Deportation Scare Tactics at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.

by Kelly Lytle Hernández, Cora Currier via The Intercept on February 26, 2017

Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports

The president's executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.

by Andrea Pitzer via Longreads on February 8, 2017

Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Immigration Act.

The Contradictory Legacy of the 1965 Immigration Act

A law designed to repair flaws in the fabric of American justice also created new ones.

by Erika Lee via What It Means to Be American on September 29, 2015

cannabis plant

Marijuana's Early History in the United States

Smokeable pot's proliferation in North America involves the Mexican Revolution, the transatlantic slave trade, and Prohibition.

by Barney Warf, Mark Hay via Vice on March 31, 2015

37 Maps That Explain How America Is a Nation of Immigrants

It's impossible to understand the country without knowing who's been kept out, who's been let in, and how they've been treated once they arrive.

by Dara Lind via Vox on January 12, 2015

The 10 Best Songs About Illegal Immigration

Over the past decade, music devoted to the cause of amnesty for undocumented immigrants has flourished across the U.S.

by Gustavo Arellano via OC Weekly on November 12, 2013

The Hispanic Challenge

The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the US into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages.

by Samuel P. Huntington via Foreign Policy on October 28, 2009

The Bisbee Deportation of 1917

It had not only a pivotal effect in Arizona's own labor history, but also on labor activity throughout the country.

by Sheila Bonnand via University of Arizona Library on January 1, 1997

Border Patrol - Our Oral History

A compilation of interviews with former U.S. Border Patrol officers who served from the 1930s-1960s.

via Border Patrol Museum on May 16, 1987

Border Patrol agents stand watch along a barrier.

Mass Deportations Are an American Tradition

Past presidents showed that removing millions of illegal aliens is achievable.

by Jacob Grandstaff via The American Conservative on February 17, 2025

Newborn babies sleeping in a maternity ward.

The Coming Assault on Birthright Citizenship

The Constitution is absolutely clear on this point, but will that matter?

by Amanda Frost via The Atlantic on January 7, 2025

Collage of Edna Ferber, a still from the film "Giant," and symbols of Texas.

The Carpetbagger Who Saw Texas’s Future

The notion of political realignment in the Lone Star State is older than you think. It goes back to Giant, an acidic novel by Edna Ferber.

by Chris Vognar via The Atlantic on December 9, 2024

Photo of Galveston County Jail, 1929.

How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration

Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”

by Brianna Nofil via The Texas Observer on November 19, 2024

Street vendors at the border crossing in Tijuana, 2006.

Fortifying the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

The 1993 “Hold the Line” experiment.

by Justin I. Salgado via Origins on June 8, 2024

Border patrol agents in a physical training.

From Suspect to Perpetrato

How history shaped the modern U.S. Border Patrol agent.

by Ernesto Chávez, Ervin A. Zubiate-Rocha via Public Books on June 5, 2024

1882 newspaper headline following the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The 100-Year-Old Racist Law that Broke America’s Immigration System

The legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924 and the launching of the Border Patrol, which inaugurated the most restrictive era of US immigration until our own.

by Mae Ngai via Public Books on May 28, 2024

graph of historic immigration data

How America Tried and Failed to Stay White

100 years ago the U.S. tried to limit immigration to White Europeans. Instead, diversity triumphed.

by Eduardo Porter, Youyou Zhou via Washington Post on May 15, 2024

Collage of photographs of U.S. Border Patrol.

The Racist Origins of America’s Broken Immigration System

How a little-known, century-old law perpetuated the odious notion that certain types of immigrants degrade our nation’s character.

by Felipe De La Hoz via The New Republic on May 1, 2024

Collage of Samuel Huntington, his essay "The Clash of Civilizations," and 21st-century political figure.

Samuel Huntington’s Great Idea Was Totally Wrong

His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and completely and utterly not true.

by Jordan Michael Smith via The New Republic on October 19, 2023

Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón at the Los Angeles County Jail, circa 1916.

An American Story

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book chronicles the tumultuous period leading up to the Mexican Revolution, casting the border as ground zero for continental change.

by Francisco Cantú via New York Review of Books on March 9, 2023

Marihuana revenue stamp $1 1937

1910s Cannabis Discourse and Prohibition

Does marijuana prohibition have racist origins? Where did ideas of “reefer madness” come from? This project looks to the historical record for answers.

by Isaac Campos via The Drug Page on March 7, 2023

Actor Eugenio Derbez at his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Spanish 'Dracula' Finds New Blood, More Than 90 Years After Its Release

In 1931, an entire new cast and crew reshot Dracula in Spanish on the Universal Studios lot.

by Mandalit del Barco via NPR on September 19, 2022

Black and white image of people observing photographs hanging on the wall at an exhibition in Oaxaca in 1999 about magonismo.

The Mexican Revolution as U.S. History

Making the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

by Jonna Perrillo via Boston Review on August 4, 2022

Photo of Hispanic students reciting the Pledge of Allegiance

First Roe, Then Plyler? The GOP’s 40-Year Fight to Keep Undocumented Kids Out of Public School

“The schoolhouse door cannot be closed to one of modern society’s most marginalized, most vilified groups.”

by Isabela Dias via Mother Jones on June 15, 2022

Ballots in sealed envelopes, in a plastic box with a sticker that reads "Vote NYC."

You Didn’t Always Have to Be a Citizen to Vote in America

The electorate has consistently changed over time as politicians seek to shape it in their favor.

by Rachel Michelle Gunter via Made By History on December 29, 2021

Document from the first session of Congress

California’s Vigilante Tradition

The far-right protestors in Huntington Beach aren’t as novel as they seem.

by Kevin Waite via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 23, 2021

Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during confirmation hearing

The DHS Secretary Could Chart a New Path on Immigration. Will He?

Alejandro Mayorkas and the limits of liberal law-and-order immigration politics.

by Adam Goodman via Made By History on February 2, 2021

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