Immigrants
Document Deep Dive: A Holocaust Survivor Finds Hope in America
Michael Pupa's story, from orphan of Nazi Europe to American citizen, is a testament to the freedoms America offers
July 03, 2012 |
By Megan Gambino
Gerda Weissmann Klein on American Citizenship
The Holocaust survivor, author and Medal of Freedom winner discusses liberation day and cherished freedoms
June 13, 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
So Where You From?
Why must a foreign accent always invite an inquisition?
September 2010 |
By Iva R. Skoch
The Changing Demographics of America
The United States population will expand by 100 million over the next 40 years. Is this a reason to worry?
August 2010 |
By Joel Kotkin
Ireland's Forgotten Sons Recovered Two Centuries Later
In Pennsylvania, amateur archaeologists unearth a mass grave of immigrant railroad workers who disappeared in 1832
April 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
The Changing Definition of African-American
How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American
February 2010 |
By Ira Berlin
German POWs on the American Homefront
Thousands of World War II prisoners ended up in mills, farm fields and even dining rooms across the United States
September 16, 2009 |
By J. Malcolm Garcia
Escaping the Iron Curtain
Photographer Sean Kernan followed Polish immigrants Andrej and Alec Bozek from an Austrian refugee camp to Texas
September 2009 |
By Dewitt Sage
Children of the Vietnam War
Born overseas to Vietnamese mothers and U.S. servicemen, Amerasians brought hard-won resilience to their lives in America
June 2009 |
By David Lamb
Cowboys and Immigrants
Two dueling archetypes dominated 20th-century American politics. Is it time for them to be reconciled?
May 2009 |
By Lance Morrow
Saving the Jews of Nazi France
As Jews in France tried to flee the Nazi occupation, Harry Bingham, an American diplomat, sped them to safety
March 2009 |
By Peter Eisner
Marseille's Ethnic Bouillabaisse
Some view Europe's most diverse city as a laboratory of the continent's future
December 2007 |
By Andrew Purvis
Cross Purposes
Mexican immigrants are defying expectations in this country-and changing the landscape back home
June 2005 |
By Jonathan Kandell
Where East Met (Wild) West
Excavations in a legendary gold rush town uncover the unsung labors of Chinese immigrants on the frontier
March 2005 |
By Raffi Khatchadourian
American Odyssey
They fled terror in Laos after secretly aiding American forces in the Vietnam War. Now 200,000 Hmong prosper-and struggle-in the United States
September 2004 |
By Marc Kaufman
Coming to America
A Somali Bantu refugee family leaves 19th-century travails behind in Africa to take up life in 21st-century Phoenix.
January 2004 |
By Gregory Jaynes
Manhattan Mayhem
Martin Scorsese's realistic portrayal of pre-Civil War strife Gangs of New York re-creates the brutal street warfare waged between immigrant groups
December 2002 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Mongrel Nation
Time and again, America has demonstrated a resilience that is rooted in the remarkable diversity of her people
November 2001 |
By Geoffrey C. Ward
