Christopher Capozzola’s Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century provides a stunning analysis of U.S.-Philippine 20th century relations, and it does so through the prism of the military and migration. This book…
Jana Lipman’s In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates is a breathtaking contribution to immigration and ethnic history. Just behind the forgotten news headlines of the 1970s—which turned Vietnamese refugees into passive victims and media spectacles that symbolized U.S.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
