An advanced undergraduate seminar on United States immigration history presents an intimidating problem of scale. There is so much relevant content that it may seem impossible to devote time to particular, non-representative immigrant experiences, especially fictional ones. However, including fiction…
Carl Lindskoog, “(Im)migration Detention: A Selective Bibliography”
This bibliography supplements an essay published in the Summer 2019 issue of the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter (available now to IEHS members and freely available online after a one-year delay). As the essay explains, and this list shows, scholars…
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,…
Alison Clark Efford, “In the Trump era, supporting our immigrant and international students is critical work”
At the April 2018 meeting of the Organization of American Historians, IEHS hosted a chat on supporting students who are immigrants featuring Ana Elizabeth Rosas (University of California, Irvine) and Rachel Ida Buff (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee). The lunchtime…
Ashley Johnson Bavery, “Borderlands in North America: A Selective Bibliography”
This bibliography supplements a historiographical essay published in the summer 2018 issue of the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter (available now to IEHS members and freely available online after a one-year delay). Conceptual Works Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New…
Tyler Anbinder, “Moving Beyond Rags to Riches: Using Digital History to Uncover the Lost Stories of New York’s Famine Immigrants”
A new website, “Moving Beyond ‘Rags to Riches’: Using Digital History to Uncover the Lost Stories of New York’s Irish Famine Immigrants,” provides students and scholars at every level with easy access to thousands of primary source documents on the…
Stacy Fahrenthold, “Resources for Migration and Refugee Histories of the Middle East”
Resources for Migration and Refugee Histories of the Middle East I have developed this list of readings from the syllabus from my course, Migrants and Refugees in the Modern Middle East. The course meets weekly and is arranged around a…
Libby Garland, “Introducing a new immigration history teaching resource”
During the 2016 election and now under the Trump administration, U.S. immigration has been hotly debated, and immigration historians have been stepping up to provide critical context. In the Washington Post, for example, historians have published pieces in recent months…
Call for contributions: Nation of Immigrants teaching project
Project Description: The “Nation of Immigrants” teaching project will develop one-week teaching modules for high school and community college teachers of U.S. history on topics related to immigration and immigrants. Immigration is a widely debated subject, but there is a…
Genevieve Carpio, “Teaching #ImmigrationSyllabus”
In the past year, there have been a series of #syllabi designed to provide a historical and theoretical context for critical social issues with deep historical roots in the United States, including #FergusonSyllabus, #CharlestonSyllabus, #BaltimoreSyllabus, and #StandingRockSyllabus. These syllabi and their hashtags provide a…
