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Awards Overview Visit the post for more.

***Apply to Awards from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society***

The IEHS offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

Would you like more information?

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Urgent Deportation of Afghans This short essay reflects Asma Karimi’s experience with wartime uncertainty, written while waiting news from her brother, who had fled to Iran. The public discourse in the United States focus…

***New blog post in our IEHS blog, Not from Here***

"Urgent Deportation of Afghans" by Asma Karimi

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Kelly Lytle Hernández. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. Ricardo Flores Magón is a widely-known historical figure in Mexico, yet has been little-known in the United States, until now. Kelly Lytle Hernández, a his

Our social media officer, @nellstra.bsky.social , recently published this book review of Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernandez's book, Bad Mexicans in the American Historical Review:

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U.S. to Require Some Foreign Visitors to Pay Bonds of Up to $15,000 for Entry

1/ This admin's bonding for certain visas harkens back to some nineteenth-century history. New York State's immigration authorities didn't require individual migrants to post bonds, but made shipping companies do so or pay a "commutation fee" in lieu of a bond. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Graduate students! @iehs.bsky.social has recently increased its George E. Pozzetta Award for dissertation research from $1,000 to $3,500. If you're writing a dissertation on any aspect of US immigration and ethnic history, consider applying for the award!

The Place of Law: Anti-Asian Violence and Community Advocacy in the Early Twentieth Century The twenty-seven-year-old labor contractor Kanshi Ram was a family man. On March 21, 1910, he was writing to them from a workers' bunkhouse after a long da

In case you missed it, check out @migrantherstory.bsky.social's recent article in the Journal of American History: "The Place of Law: Anti-Asian Violence and Community Advocacy in the Early Twentieth Century."

The article is currently free and open access.

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The IEHS blog, Not From Here, is launching a new series titled “Historians at Work,” which spotlights historians working outside of academia. We welcome short essays, interviews, photo reflections, and commentaries.

Interested in submitting? notfromhere@iehs.org

Summer 2025 Online Books Series Visit the post for more.

***A week from today***

Join us at 4:15 PM EST on Tuesday, August 12 for our next online book event with @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. Hongdeng Gao will moderate the discussion.

Register: iehs.org/event/online...

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award Visit the post for more.

***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 grad students with dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history, broadly defined.

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This Day in Labor History: August 4, 1942. The United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World War II. Let's talk the Bracero Program and Americans' hatred of Mexicans except for cheap labor.

The deadline is today, August 1st!

***Personal Liability Insurance with OAH Membership***

OAH members who live in the U.S. are eligible to take advantage of the Trust for Insuring Educators (TIE) insurance programs. They offer group rates on services.

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Analyzing Digitized War Bride Visa Applications This work is funded in part by the IEHS Digital History Seed Grant. Russian War Brides, June 13, 1919, Photographs of American Military Activities, RG 111, National Archives and Records Administrat…

Check out this new blog post as part of our IEHS blog, Not from Here:

"Analyzing Digitized War Bride Visa Applications" by Lauren Cain

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Digital History Seed Grants Visit the post for more.

***IEHS Grant Highlight***

The deadline to apply for a digital history seed grant is THIS FRIDAY, August 1.

Members can find more details about this opportunity on the IEHS website:

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Have you seen our IEHS Monthly Digest for July yet?

We just sent out our monthly newsletter which includes exciting announcements about recent award winners, publications, and upcoming events.

Not on our newsletter or want something included for the next one? Email digest@iehs.org

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Suzanne Orr ( @kstate.bsky.social ) examines how the United States accepted twenty thousand stateless Russian refugees between the world wars in Journal of American Ethnic History 44.3. cc: @iehs.bsky.social
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***Immigration History and the Present (New Blog Series)***

Our blog invites contributions exploring the intersections of immigration history and the present. We welcome short essays, interviews, and reflections connecting historical scholarship to current issues.

Interested? notfromhere@iehs.org.

Know Your Rights Visit the post for more.

***Know your rights information on the IEHS website***

The IEHS website now has a “Know Your Rights” page with several resources to navigate the current immigration landscape.

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***German Chancellor Chooses Book as Diplomatic Gift***

In June, when German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited D.C., he left a book at Blair House. He chose News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home (1991), edited by IEHS member Walter D. Kamphoefner and his German colleagues.

Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Did you know that the Immigration and Ethnic History Society has a YouTube channel?

Consider following us on there as we have videos of our past programs.

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***Save the Date!***

The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee is excited to hold the next virtual mentorship event on Thursday, October 2 from 5:00PM to 6:15PM EST. The event is open to graduate students, early career historians, and independent scholars.

Stay tuned!

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Hikawa Maru, a cargo-passenger liner, operated between Yokohama and Seattle in the early 20th century.

The Executive Board of the IEHS wishes to thank Miguel Girón for the incredible work he did for Not From Here during his three-year term as blog editor and Andrew Urban for his work as Database Manager.

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We are delighted to share that Yun Jung Kim has agreed to serve as the new Expert Database Manager and Blog Editor of Not from Here. In addition to being in charge of the blog and the expert database, she manages the Society’s email communications and serves on the Web Team.

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Our monthly IEHS digest comes out on the 27th of every month. Please email us at digest@iehs.org one week before then if you have any announcements about events, grants, or public speaking engagements that you would like us to share in the digest.

Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish and Italians handled emigration to the US The editors of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move highlight two great diasporas’ differences and similarities

🗃️"Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish & Italians handled emigration to the US" by the editors of a new collection "Rituals of Migration" @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @tedsmyth.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective

The use of citizenship to order power in the United States isn't new. It has a long and troubling history.

Today is publication day for a new scholarship on this topic.
Maddalena Marinari and I --with five superb historians-- share.

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