After the recent Ken Cuccinelli debacle, several outlets are doing a nice job of informing the public about Emma Lazarus and her relationship to American immigration history. Over at Slate, Rebecca Onion interviews Princeton professor and Lazarus biographer Esther Schor....
Check out National Public Radio’s (“All Things Considered”) recent piece on Emma Lazarus‘s poem The New Colossus. This, of course, is relevant in light of recent comments by Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director of the Citizenship and Immigration Service Office. Here is the...
Stephen Miller, a senior aide of Donald Trump, is now telling reporters what is “ahistorical” and what is not. In case you did not hear, today Trump and two United States Senators rolled out the “RAISE Act.” Â In a nutshell,...
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” -Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus”...
