History Resources

The History of US Immigration Laws

The 1965 Immigration Act: Opening the Nation to Immigrants of Color

Essay

Tom Gjelten

Government and Civics

Immigrants and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

Essay

Terri Diane Halperin

The Dillingham Commission and the “Immigration Question,” 1907−1921

Essay

Robert Zeidel

Government and Civics

“In the Name of America’s Future”: The Fraught Passage of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act

Essay

Maddalena Marinari

Government and Civics

The History of US Immigration Laws: What Students Should Know

Essay

Jane Hong

Government and Civics

Expelling the Poor: The Antebellum Origins of American Deportation Policy

Essay

Hidetaka Hirota

From the Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Anti-Communist Trading Cards, 1951

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Government and Civics

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Immigration and Migration: Pairing Text and Visual Materials

Lesson Plan

Art

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12