Detroit native Stephen Henderson details his family’s history during The Great Migration. The Great Migration is the focus of a new PBS documentary series “Great Migrations: People on the Move” ...

Who came to Cleveland and changed it forever? On June 13, Greg Deegan, executive director of Teaching Cleveland, will answer this question in a lecture titled, “The History of Immigration and ...

On a spring evening at Washington, D.C.’s historic True Reformer Building — the first building in the United States designed, ...

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 ...

Migration has shaped human societies from prehistoric times to the present, driving demographic shifts, cultural exchange and economic transformation on every continent. Early human dispersals out of ...

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Aviva Chomsky, a historian, author, and activist whose work challenges dominant narratives about immigration, labor, and ...

PART I: IMMIGRATION ISSUES FROM THE FOUNDERS TO THE CREATION OF A SYSTEM OF LIMITATION: Nation of the native born unready for the great wave -- Immigration reform: beginnings of national policy -- ...

Chicago has certainly been here before. The more than 36,000 migrants that have arrived to Chicago over the past year-and-a-half are just some of the latest to immigrate to a city that, over a century ...

BRATTLEBORO — In 1882 Brattleboro-born Richard Morris Hunt was chosen to design a gigantic pedestal to support the Statue of Liberty. The statue was a gift from France to the United States. The ...