Learn more about US immigration history and policy from leading historians and Gilder Lehrman Institute curators and master teachers, as well as a video version of one of our Traveling Exhibitions.
Based on a Traveling Exhibition
Inside the Vault
- Inside the Vault: Chinese Exclusion Act with Gilder Lehrman curators and master teachers
Historians Speak Out
- “Europeans and the New World” by Brian DeLay
- “Gold, Gospel, and Glory: Motivations for European Exploration and Colonization of the Americas” by John Fea
- “Tracing the Origins of Chinese Exclusion” by Jane Hong
- “Chinese Exclusion and the Rise of the Gatekeeping State, 1883-1929” by Jane Hong
- “The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part I” by Matthew Jacobson
- “The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 2” by Matthew Jacobson
- “Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America” by Erika Lee
- “Immigration since 1965” by Mae Ngai