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immigrants

The Author’s Corner with Yii-Jan Lin 

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 10, 2025

Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. This interview is based on her new book, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (Yale University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Immigration and […]

The Author’s Corner with David M. Emmons

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 29, 2024

David M. Emmons is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Montana. This interview is based on his new book, History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2024). JF: What […]

The Author’s Corner with Mauricio Castro

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 23, 2024

Mauricio Castro is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of Latin American Studies at Centre College. This interview is based on his new book, Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformation […]

The Author’s Corner with Mark Richard

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 15, 2024

Mark Richard is Professor of History and Canadian Studies at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. This interview is based on his new book, Catholics Across Borders: Canadian Immigrants in the North Country, Plattsburgh, New York, 1850-1950 (State […]

Three cheers for the University of Maryland

John Fea   |  January 23, 2024

Emily Davies has a great article at The Washington Post about the University of Maryland’s practice of sending members of its marching band to inform select students that they have been accepted to the university. Davies tells the story of […]

Eastern Nazarene College: An evangelical school doing evangelical things

John Fea   |  August 19, 2023

Here is the the Eastern Nazarene College website: Eastern Nazarene College’s (ENC) mission is ‘to provide a transformational education that equips diverse students to lead and serve our world as agents of Christ’s love and truth.’ And our vision carries […]

The Author’s Corner with Zhongping Chen

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 25, 2023

Zhongping Chen is Professor of History at the University of Victoria. This interview is based on his new book, Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918 (Stanford University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Transpacific […]

The Author’s Corner with Kevin Kenny

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 26, 2023

Kevin Kenny is Professor of History and Glucksman Professor in Irish Studies at New York University. This interview is based on his new book, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford […]

There was apparently no room in Greg Abbott’s inn this Christmas eve.

John Fea   |  December 25, 2022

It’s Christmas. That means it’s time for evangelical politicians to use aslyum-seeking migrants for their political stunts. Here is CNN: Several busloads of migrants were dropped off in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, DC, on Christmas […]

The Author’s Corner with Matthew Smith

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 21, 2022

Matthew Smith is Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Regional Director of Public Programming at Miami University of Ohio. This interview is based on his new book, The Spires Still Point to Heaven: Cincinnati’s Religious Landscape, 1788–1873 (Temple University Press, […]

The Author’s Corner with Alan J. M. Noonan

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 11, 2022

Alan J. M. Noonan is an independent historian. This interview is based on his new book, Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849-1920 (University Press of Colorado, 2022). JF: What led you to write Mining Irish-American Lives? AN: I have […]

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  August 21, 2021