When historian Oscar Handlin wrote the 1951 book The Uprooted, which redefined immigration history, he began it by telling readers, “Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America.

In his first year back in office, President Trump has completely shifted the U.S. approach to immigration, launching the most ...

Pt. I. Colonial America. Overseas migration from Europe ; English immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England ; Slavery and immigrants from Africa ; Other Europeans in Colonial America ...

Recently, I took a few months away from doing “Memo from the Middle” to write a book about the 50 years I spent with the Korean woman who is my wife. While writing a memoir in far-off places like ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come. By Lydia ...

One does not expect to stumble across news about the Galveston Movement in the august pages of The New Yorker magazine. Discussion of this 20th-century resettlement campaign — a breakaway effort that ...

All peoples of the Western Hemisphere are children of immigrants, yet the hatred of immigrants has always been a part of America’s history. No retelling of the facts will change the reality that we ...

When debating current issues, it’s helpful to avoid inaccurate depictions of past policy, especially on immigration, in which both opponents and advocates of President Trump’s policies have views ...

As President Donald Trump’s administration imposes new restrictions on the legal immigration system, U.S. adults are more likely than they were a year ago to think these immigrants benefit the country ...