The headline should read From Deportee to Presidential Advisor to Obituary in the Washington Post – where we found Armando […]
From Deportee to Presidential Advisor
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The First Exclusion
They ‘swarm’ out of the mountains, ‘devour’ our resources, bring disease and crime, take ‘jobs from Americans’, they are ‘invading,’ […]
An Immigrant in the Hall of Fame
A 1990 immigrant to the United States just became the first player ever unanimously elected to the Baseball Hall of […]
An Immigrant Warrior, Sonic, and Poet
Photo Credit: Greg Nelson Welcome to our second Immigrant in History Post! Today’s immigrant is a much more recent addition […]
Happy Independence Day!
Happy Independence Day! While we prepare to celebrate, we’d like to offer this short history lesson. The Declaration of Independence […]
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 […]
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 […]