Happy Independence Day! While we prepare to celebrate, we’d like to offer this short history lesson. The Declaration of Independence […]
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Immigrants in History, Part One
A new monthly blog feature: we will be spotlighting an immigrant from American history that you may have never heard […]
Banning Immigrants
“Certain kinds of criminality are inherent in the Italian race. In the popular mind, crimes of personal violence, robbery, blackmail […]
Decoration Day and Immigrants
A brief story for Memorial Day. Memorial Day first began as Decoration Day shortly after the Civil War ended in […]
One Hundred Years Ago … the Difference
PBS’ The American Experience just ran an outstanding three-episode show about the United States one hundred years ago. April saw […]
Immigrants and Movies and Immigrants
Netflix just released a three part movie documentary by Steven Spielberg called Five Came Back. It’s highly recommended. It’s the […]
The Sons of Immigrants
Seventy-five years ago this week, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. On its face, it was innocuous. Issued just […]
Immigration in 1900 and Baseball
Between 1890 and 1914, 13.6 million people immigrated to the United States. If that number seems eerily familiar just remember […]