The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) is now seeking a Book Review Editor (BRE) for its quarterly Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH). The BRE is responsible for selecting, requesting, receiving, and distributing books for review; identifying and recruiting…
IEHS scholar Lucy Salyer uncovers the history of expatriation & the Fenian Brotherhood
Immigration historians, take note. Scholar Lucy Salyer has an essay up at Zocalo where she writes about Irish Americans who joined the Fenian Brotherhood around the time of the U.S. Civil War and the shifting ideas of allegiance, citizenship, and…
Judy Ridner, “How to teach the history of the Scots Irish in Early Pennsylvania”
The Scots Irish are surely among the most mythologized immigrant groups in America. Thanks in large part to popular best-sellers such as Jim Webb’s Born Fighting, which has recently become a two-part series by the same name on the Smithsonian Channel,…
S. Deborah Kang, “The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954”
In December 2014, I visited Friendship Park/El Parque de la Amistad, San Diego-Tijuana, to take photos for my book, The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). As I walked along…
Julie Weise, “2016: The year nativism conquered the South”
Editor’s Note: Periodically, the blog features contributions by this year’s IEHS award winners to give our readers a sense of ongoing scholarship debates in Immigration and Ethnic History and related fields. In April 2016 IEHS awarded Julie Weise Honorable Mention for the Theodore Saloutos…
Adam Mendelsohn, “No business like the clothing business: how I came to write The Rag Race”
Editor’s Note: Periodically, the blog features contributions by this year’s IEHS award winners to give our readers a sense of ongoing scholarship debates in Immigration and Ethnic History and related fields. In April 2016 IEHS awarded Adam Mendelsohn the First Book Award for The Rag…
