Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing

Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago -- and today. Here ar

Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In

Becoming Americans explains how diverse peoples, holding different and sometimes conflicting personal ambitions, evolved into a society that values both liberty

Traces the history of American immigration from 1607 to the 1920s and looks at how groups of immigrants have adapted to the United States.