Recently, I gave two presentations: first at the Pope St. John XXIII Seminary in Massachusetts, and the second at Sacred ...

One hundred years ago today, the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay opened its doors. From 1910 to 1940, the “Ellis Island of the West” was the gateway into America for more than ...

When Salvatore Pugliese disembarked the S.S. America at Ellis Island after two weeks at sea, an immigration officer grilled the 17-year-old tailor. Was he a polygamist? An anarchist? Did he advocate ...

NEW YORK (AP) – When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom. Now, as the crowds come together to mark the 50th anniversary of that seminal event in ...

The proportion of immigrants in the United States is at its highest level in over a century, but that's not the case in Ohio. Around 15% of the national population is comprised of immigrants, compared ...

What many people don't realize about the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an organization within the Department of Justice, is that it was only created in 2003. It was, in part, a ...

For four years, History Prof. Robert Forrant and Asst. Prof. Ingrid Hess of Art & Design have quietly charted the broad history of immigration in Lowell. With the help of a team of UML students , they ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. On August 10, 1988, Ronald Reagan proclaimed, “America stands unique in the world: the ...

The similarity was so striking, it made Alan Kraut laugh. “It’s like an echo from the past,” the American University history professor said after hearing the latest description of undocumented ...