Table of Contents
Introduction: No Place Like America xi
What Unites Us
The Golden Door
Immigrant Story-Emma Lazarus
Controversy
Not All of Us Are Immigrants
Why It's Important
Chapter 1 Who Was Here First? 1
New News from Old Bones
Before We Were Even a Country
New England
Immigrant Stories-Children of the Mayflower
Chapter 2 Women Take the Lead 15
Immigrant Story-Anne Bradstreet
Immigrant Story-Anne Hutchinson
Immigrant Story-Margaret Brent
Immigrant Story-Elizabeth Glover
Immigrant Story-Anna Zenger
Immigrant Story-Mary Musgrove
Immigrant Story-Ann Lee
Chapter 3 From New England Outward 26
Middle Colonies
The Frontier
The South
Slaves, Not Immigrants
Immigrant Story-Claude McKay
Servants, Not Slaves
What the Founders Said
Chapter 4 Hamilton versus Jefferson 40
The Law Steps In
Perhaps the Ultimate Immigrant Story-Alexander Hamilton
Chapter 5 America Opens Its Arms 45
Immigrants Welcome!
Brief History of Germans in America
Immigrant Story-Levi Strauss
Immigrant Story-Edward Stratemeyer
Immigrant Story-Frederick Trump
Immigrant Story-Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Brief History of the Irish in America
Those Who Know Nothing
Immigrant Story-Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
What the Civil War Meant for Immigration
Chapter 6 Annie Moore and the Millions Who Followed 60
Ellis Island Opens
The Statue of Liberty, Another Immigrant Story
Reasons an Arrival Could Get Rejected
Immigrant Story-Isaac Asimov
Like a Little City
Where Next?
Immigrant Story-Annie Moore
How the Other Half Lives
Immigrant Story-Nikola Tesla
Blowback
Immigrant Story-Júlia Warhola
End of Ellis Island
Chapter 7 Poems on the Walls 78
Gold!
Immigrant Story-Wong Chin Foo
Immigrant Story-Chang and Eng Bunker
A First in American History
The Purpose of Angel Island
Sons of Paper
"America Has Power, But Not Justice"
Apologies
Immigrant Story-Judy Chu
Immigrant Story-Yo-Yo Ma
Chapter 8 More Ebbs and Flows into the 1900s-and Why 99
Immigrants from South and East India
Muslims in America
Immigrant Story-Zarif Khan, Hot Tamale Louie
Immigrant Story-Luther George Simjian
Immigrant Story-Steve Jobs
Wars Intervene
Immigrant Story-Peg O'Connor
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Immigrant Story-Bela Lugosi
Immigrant Story-Ralph Baer
Chapter 9 A Dark Chapter 115
Japanese in America
The Roundups Begin
The Camps
Immigrant Story-Madeleine Sugimoto
Life at Manzanar
Immigrant Story-George Takei
Aftermath
Immigrant Story-Yoshiko Uchida
Other Enemies
Apologies
Chapter 10 Open Arms, Then Closed 133
Refugees
Immigrant Story-Albert Einstein
Another Kind of War
Immigrant Story-Sergey Brin
Immigrant Story-Gloria Estefan
The Push-Pull Continues During the Cold War Years
Immigrant Story-Nadia Comaneci
Immigrant Story-Martina Navratilova
Chapter 11 The Sixties Bring an Epic Change 144
People Behind the Change
What the Hart-Celler Act Did
Immigrant Story-Jerry Yang
Some Examples of Changes After 1965
Immigrant Story-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Immigrant Story-Elon Musk
Women Again Take the Lead
More Refugees
A Clustering Phenomenon
Chapter 12 The History of Mexicans in America from 1846 Onward 161
Up and Down
Immigrant Story-Amelia Morán Ceja
Needing Documents
Immigrant Story-Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
Immigrant Story-José Quiñonez
Chapter 13 Helping Children 170
Immigrant Story-Henry Armetta
Operation Babylift
Immigrant Story-Andy Hoang
The Lost Boys
Immigrant Story-Alephonsion Deng
Chapter 14 The Food Chapter 177
Immigrant Story-David Tran
From German to Chinese
Immigrant Story-Henry John Heinz
Immigrant Story-Dr. Yamei Kin
And Much More
Immigrant Story-Ranji Smile
Immigrant Story-Roy Choi
Immigrant Story-Reuben and Rose Mattus
Can Food Be More than Food?
Immigrant Story-Hamdi Ulukaya
Chapter 15 The Attacks of 9/11 and Immigration 188
American Response to 9/11
Backlash Against Immigrants
The Weaponizing of Immigration
Chapter 16 The Never-Ending Immigration Debate 194
Mini Melting Pots
Immigrant Story-Zahraa Naser
Immigrant Story- Ruhatijuru Sebatutsi
Playing by the Rules
The Push-Pull of the Obama Years
Immigrant Story-Indira Isias
Immigrant Story-John Lennon
Enter Trump
Immigrant Story-Wolf-Leib Glosser
Border Wall
Immigrant Story-Guadalupe Garcia Aguilar
Immigrant Story-Larissa Martinez
The Zero-Tolerance Border Policy
The Facts
Immigrant Story-Juan
Manuel Montes
Immigrant Story-Melania Trump
Chapter 17 The Future 234
Changes to Come
Refugees
Immigration Benefits
Immigrant Story-Mike Krieger
Immigrant Story-Max Lechvin
Changing Attitudes
Immigrant Story- Khizr Khan
Sources 247
Photo credits 251
Index 253
Timeline 256