"With renewed national attention on Somali Americans, it is worth asking a simple question: How long have Somalis been part ...

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

A Year in Reading What Is Somaliland, and Do We Have to Care About It? The wars that someone’s ancestors fought in are beside the point. Responding to internet-driven debates of late over American ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and ...

The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black New Yorkers who lived in Lower Manhattan’s tenements in the 1860s and 1870s. The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of ...

In 1876, France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a monument to republican liberty. Conceived by French abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye and built by artist Frédéric Auguste ...

President Donald Trump’s vow to wage the biggest domestic deportation program in American history – expelling a million people a year – is one of his signature goals. In its own words, US Customs and ...

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos. By Jill Cowan Jill Cowan grew up in the ...