Erika Lee

The United States often touts itself as a "nation of immigrants," but this obscures the real story.

Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.

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

Despite the Chinese Exclusion Act, about 300,000 Chinese gained admission to the U.S. between 1882 and 1943. How did they do it?

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

How an Asian American literary pioneer fell into obscurity.

Why did a local official, at the turn of the twentieth century, maintain a ledger tracking Chinese residents?

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.

Educators say that anti-Asian racism is directly linked to how the AAPI community is often depicted in U.S. history lessons .

Many of us are unaware of the special circumstances that eased our entry into American life—and of the bonds we share with other nonwhite groups.

He was the Chinese-American cook who became the father of ‘birthright citizenship.’