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A New Way of Seeing 200 Years of American Immigration

To depict how waves of immigrants shaped the United States, a team of designers looked to nature as a model.

by Tanvi Misra via CityLab on December 17, 2018

Fracturing Landscapes: A History of Fences on the U.S.-Mexico Divide

History tells us that Trump's proposed wall will not work, and that it will do more damage than good.

by Mary Mendoza via OUPblog on September 4, 2018

U.S. Immigration Policy Has Always Prioritized Keeping Families Together

Everyone from immigration advocates to bigots and nativists have valued family unity.

by Paul A. Kramer via Made By History on June 26, 2018

Field of Dreams

Migrant futboleros in greater Mexico.

by Romeo Guzman via Boom California on June 13, 2018

Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Trumpism Before Trump

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.

by Calvin Terbeek, Robert L. Tsai via Boston Review on June 11, 2018

Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen

Thanks to federal immigration policies, immigration from Ireland has all but dried up.

by Sadhbh Walshe via New York Review of Books on March 16, 2018

Irish immigrants at Ellis Island.

Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen

Changes to US immigration rules have largely closed the door to new entries, leading inexorably to a “graying” of Irish America.

by Sadhbh Walshe via New York Review of Books on March 16, 2018

Immigrants Welcome*

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: US citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

by Maytha Alhassan via Boston Review on February 6, 2018

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex in Dallas.

Republicans Want to Use Immigration Policy to Make America Whiter. They’re Destined to Fail.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.

by Julia G. Young via Made By History on February 6, 2018

Historian Timothy Naftali being interviewed by Fareed Zakaria on television.

How Republicans Set the Stage for Trump’s Corrosive Ideas on Immigration

Trump's language might be uniquely vulgar but his ideas are part of a long trend.

by Rick Baldoz via Made By History on January 13, 2018

We’ve Been Here Before: Historians Annotate and Analyze Immigration Ban's Place in History

Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.

by Angilee Shah via PRI's The World on February 1, 2017

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

A painting of U.S. Navy Lt. Stephen Decatur battling Muslim sailors, Tripoli, August 1804.

America’s Forgotten Images of Islam

Popular early U.S. tales depicted Muslims as menacing figures in faraway lands or cardboard moral paragons.

by Peter Manseau via The Wall Street Journal on February 27, 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

What's Old is New: How Orange County's Conservative Past Created its Demographics Today

As immigration flows changed, Orange County's demographics changed and so did its political leanings.

by Ryan Reft via KCET on January 18, 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

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