Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago? Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city. You can access and read it for free, below. www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...

New publication from IEHS member Harvey Strum: “Maine's Aid to Ireland during the Great Hunger,” Journal of New England History 82, no. 2 (Spring 2025): 80-107. www.nejh.org/product-page...

New publication by IEHS member Samuel J. Klee: “Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942,” Environmental History 30, no. 4 (October, 2025): 729-745. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

***New article by IEHS member @kangborderlaw.bsky.social *** “Creating a ‘Mass Production Technique’: Anti-Mexican Racism and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952,” Journal of American Constitutional History 3, no. 3 (2025): 545-613. jach.law.wisc.edu/anti-mexican...

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“Multiple prominent Protestant leaders say that two pastors close to Trump [Paula White-Cain and Mark Burns] have given their approval of the plan.”

Our next bath of 3D printed whistles are in process, and we have requests to supply multiple large trainings over the next 2 weeks. We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.

***Write for the IEHS Blog*** Not From Here, the official blog of the IEHS, seeks submissions from scholars writing about the histories of immigration, race, and ethnicity. For more information: iehs.org/submit-a-blo...

New blog post on the IEHS blog, Not From Here: Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari with Hardeep Dhillon @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social iehs.org/authors-on-a...

***TODAY*** The @ihrc-umn.bsky.social invites you to the Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States webinar on Wednesday, November 12 from 4:00 to 5:15 CST. Register: z.umn.edu/HiddenHistories.

***Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed*** If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form or send your contact information and areas of expertise to [email protected] iehs.org/review-books...

NEW DATA: ICE's number of average daily arrests in Texas have more than doubled under Trump — leading to one in four arrests across the country. Arrests of people who have not been convicted of a crime have also increased. This is plain cruelty. The ICE detention machine must be shut down.

***Tomorrow*** The recently formed Migration Scholars Solidarity and Resistance Network urges all migration scholars around the globe to organize Teach Ins-Outs around the theme “Stop the War on Migrants; Migration is a Social Good” on November 11, 2025. More: [email protected].

Reliable, transparent information about country conditions has become harder to access — yet it remains essential for fair asylum decisions and informed migration policy. 👇🧵

***Funding Opportunity*** The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies is pleased to announce the 2026-2027 Research and Project Grant call for applications. Deadline: 3/31/26. botstiberbiaas.org/grants/resea...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

In case you missed it: There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

***A week from today*** The IHRC invites you to the Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States webinar on Wednesday, November 12 from 4:00 to 5:15 CST. Register at z.umn.edu/HiddenHistories.

TODAY, November 5th Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund Lecture at the University of Minnesota Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling with Charlotte Karem Albrecht for the inaugural Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund lecture at UMN and online. Register at z.umn.edu/HittiLecture

You'll be shocked to know that it was a Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center wgntv.com/news/chicago...

Global Teach Ins-Outs about Migration The Migration Scholars Solidarity and Resistance Network urges migration scholars to organize Teach Ins-Outs around the theme “Stop the War on Migrants; Migration is a Social Good” on November 11, 2025. Info? [email protected].

***Attention graduate students*** Apply to the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history. iehs.org/awards/georg...

It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Check out this new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History focused on "Immigration and Citizenship" edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples' Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship. Learn more about this here: www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Congratulations again, @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social! So well deserved.

***David J. Weber Prize Winner*** Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social for receiving the David J. Weber Prize from the Western History Association for his Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship!

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

OAH-IEHS Joint Virtual Event TODAY: Thursday, October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST The event will focus on the history of deportation in the United States and feature several IEHS members who are experts on the topic. Register: www.oah.org/2025/10/06/o...

Join us this afternoon if you can! This is such an important and timely conversation. Details below 👇🏽

This was such a fantastic event! Look for the videos on the @iehs.bsky.social YouTube channel. The short videos are great a teaching tool.

Be sure to check out this special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History from special editors @irpinaingiro.bsky.social and @migrantherstory.bsky.social :

Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund Lecture at the University of Minnesota with Charlotte Karem Albrecht Wednesday, November 5, 2025 6:00 to 7:30 at the Weisman Art Museum, 333 E. River Rd. Minneapolis, MN. This lecture will be hybrid. Register at z.umn.edu/HittiLecture.

New blog post on the IEHS blog, Not From Here, with @kevinkenny.bsky.social , @irpinaingiro.bsky.social , and @migrantherstory.bsky.social : iehs.org/authors-on-a...

Really excited about this conversation tomorrow! Join us if you can. More details below 👇🏽

Really excited about this conversation tomorrow! Join us if you can. More details below 👇🏽

IEHS Fall Online Book Event Happening TOMORROW Join us on Tuesday, October 28 at 4:15 PM EDT for the next IEHS online book event with Julie Greene and Brendan A. Shanahan Michael Salgarolo will moderate the discussion. Register: iehs.org/event/online...

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history. More details here: iehs.org/awards/?fbcl...

Food banks across the U.S. were stretched thin even before the federal government shut down. Rising food prices had driven a growing number of people to their doors. Cuts to federal programs had left them with less to give. Now, that system is anticipating an even greater surge in demand.

“Over 170 U.S. Citizens are being arrested. Why? Because they look like me,” Rep. Robert Garcia of California said, referencing our reporting. “Or because they are suspected to not be a U.S. citizen, or because they are suspected of crimes they have not committed.”

Thank you for your excellent questions, @migrantherstory.bsky.social! I loved being in conversation with you about Rituals of Migration for the @iehs.bsky.social blog. @kevinkenny.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social

Thank you @iehs.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @migrantherstory.bsky.social & Eunice Kim for this conversation on Rituals of Migration @nyupress.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️ iehs.org/authors-on-a...

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history. More details here: iehs.org/awards/?fbcl...

Be sure to check out this new blog post in our IEHS blog, Not From Here! @migrantherstory.bsky.social interviews the editors of After Rituals of Migration, @irpinaingiro.bsky.social and @kevinkenny.bsky.social.

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Thank you for your excellent questions, @migrantherstory.bsky.social! I loved being in conversation with you about Rituals of Migration for the @iehs.bsky.social blog. @kevinkenny.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social

I had a chance to interview two of my favorite people in the field - @irpinaingiro.bsky.social & @kevinkenny.bsky.social After Rituals of Migration was published! Read more about their new edited work--with nine scholars-- here: iehs.org/authors-on-a...

New article by IEHS members Naoko Wake and @michaelrjin.bsky.social: “Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora: Intergenerational Suffering and Justice-Seeking Among Korean Pihaeja,” American Historical Review 130, no. 3 (September 2025): 1009-1038. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...