When historian Oscar Handlin wrote the 1951 book The Uprooted, which redefined immigration history, he began it by telling readers, “Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America.

Pt. I. Colonial America. Overseas migration from Europe ; English immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England ; Slavery and immigrants from Africa ; Other Europeans in Colonial America ...

In his first year back in office, President Trump has completely shifted the U.S. approach to immigration, launching the most ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come. By Lydia ...

One does not expect to stumble across news about the Galveston Movement in the august pages of The New Yorker magazine. Discussion of this 20th-century resettlement campaign — a breakaway effort that ...

My colleague Smmo Ozawa and I spent the past year recording oral histories about immigration in the rural United States. One of my favorite interviews happened at the police station in Fort Morgan, a ...

All peoples of the Western Hemisphere are children of immigrants, yet the hatred of immigrants has always been a part of America’s history. No retelling of the facts will change the reality that we ...

As President Donald Trump’s administration imposes new restrictions on the legal immigration system, U.S. adults are more likely than they were a year ago to think these immigrants benefit the country ...

Doing the right thing in the wrong way can be a costly initiative, indeed — especially when Congress gets involved. The Hart-Celler Act (U.S. Immigration Act of 1965) was well-intentioned in ...

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Across the United States, someone is missing. One year into President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West ...