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His book is "Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration."

In 1994, California had a ballot initiative to bar illegal immigrants from using public services. While i…

The American Historical Association hosted a briefing with history professors Geraldo Cadava (Northwestern University), Nara Milanich (Barnard College) and Mae Ngai (Columbia Univ.) on immigration along the southern and southwest border.

In 1964 and 1965, President Lyndon Johnson called on Americans' "better angels" with speeches on the "Great Society" and immigration.

Northwestern University professor Kevin Boyle taught a class about immigration and working class life in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

She described how, during this time period, the United States created laws excluding Chinese people from immigration and citizenship.

Historians discussed the year 1862, examining the state of native nations, public lands, black education, and West coast immigration.

In her book Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion & Deportation in the United States, lawyer and historian Julia Rose Kraut examined the use of deportation to suppress free speech and the conflicts it causes between immigration law and the First Amendment.

The immediate post-World War I era was a period in U.S. history marked by violent labor strikes, mass anti-immigration rallies, race riots, and a government crackdown on socialist and other leftist political organizations -- known as the first "Red Scare."

Westfield State University history professor emerita Catherine Shannon discussed the large-scale Irish immigration to America in the mid-nineteenth century.

In her own book -- Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99 -- Carol Lynn McKibben focused on the role women played in the industry and how they were represented in Steinbeck's novel.

A historian and a philanthropist looked at the struggles and discrimination faced by Chinese immigrants i…

University of Texas at Austin professor Madeline Hsu taught a class about the 1965 Immigration Act and current immigration demographics.

University of North Florida Professor David Courtwright taught a class about changes in immigration demographics and the rise of nativism in the early 20th century.

This 1980 film on immigration was directed by Robert Newman and funded by the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, which was associated with the United Church of Christ. It includes audio recordings of Americans expressing opinions in favor of and against immigration, and scenes of the U.S.- Mexico border, immigrants in New York City, and a Cuban refugee camp in Pennsylvania.

Author Jia Lynn Yang discussed her book One Mighty and Irresistible Tide, which looks at the evolution of U.S. policy since the Immigration Act of 1924. ... Yang examined the racial, economic and moral debates leading up to the passage of that law, and how those factors influenced immigration legislation throughout the 20th century.

Peter Urban gave a tour of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City and showed how some 12 million immigrants were processed in the facility.

Historians discussed the role and reception of ethnic and immigrant troops during the Civil War. They tal…

In this film produced by the Naval White House Photographic Unit, Lady Bird Johnson begins at the Statue of Liberty, where she dedicates the American Museum of Immigration.

University of Minnesota professor Erika Lee talks about Asian immigration to the West coast from 1830 to 1930, including the role of San Francisco Bay's Angel Island in the 20th century. ... This class was from a course called "American Immigration History."