Hidetaka Hirota

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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: iehs.org/resources/ad...

***Come learn about some fascinating new books!***

Please join our spring Online IEHS Book Series at 3:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 4! Marla A. Ramirez and Reem Bailony will present their books. The event will be moderated by Mark Tseng-Putterman.

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Call for Proposals Immigrants in Challenging Times Edited by Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia A Call for Papers Since the early republic, advocacy has played a crucial role in shaping the contours of state ...

***Call for Papers***

Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia are inviting IEHS members to submit a paper proposal for an edited anthology, tentatively titled Immigrants in Challenging Times, by March 15, 2026.

More info: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

***Appointment of New JAEH Editor***

Dr. Alison Efford (Marquette University) has been appointed as the new editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History. Her appointment will begin in April 2027.

***Programming at the Tenement Museum***

The Tenement Museum in New York City has a robust programming schedule this winter and spring. The events are both virtual and in person.

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***Congratulations to IEHS Member and former Officer Sergio M. González***

@smgonzalezwi.bsky.social received the John Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic History Association for his book Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin.

Congratulations!

***IEHS Spring Online Book Series***

Please join our spring Online Book Series at 3:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 4! Marla A. Ramirez and Reem Bailony will present their books. The event will be moderated by Mark Tseng-Putterman.

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

Thank you! Very excited by this opportunity!

Legal history people: the ASLH conference will be in the Canadian Rockies in Nov.2026! Panel proposals are due March 24, 2026. The Call links to google sheets where you can find co-panelists & chair-commentators 👇 You can @ me if you're looking for fellow panelists, too.

@shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Akira Iriye, leading historian of Japan-U.S. relations, dies | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis Akira Iriye, a Harvard University professor emeritus and a leading scholar on the history of international relations, died on Jan. 27. He was 91.

Akira Iriye, one of the pioneers in the internationalization of U.S. history, passed away. RIP.
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Immigration History: Context for Today by @oah.org

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Abstract cover design showing the southern states and the title of the book, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the 19th-Century United States

Margaret Morgan and her children remained enslaved in MD and vanished from the historical record. But the principle of anti-racist local sovereignty stood and still stands. See The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic @academic.oup.com ⬇️⬇️⬇️ global.oup.com/academic/pro... =10/10

Image showing a fugitive slave being captured by four men under antebellum federal law

🗃️ State & local jurisdictions cannot defy federal law but neither can the federal govt order them to enforce every aspect of that law. For some origins of this ongoing tension in immigration federalism, rooted in the history of American slavery, here is a 🧵 on Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) 🧵 1/10

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

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Authors on Authors: Deborah Kanter & Stephen Koeth For years now, Stephen Koeth and Deborah Kanter have found themselves attending the same conference panels, drawn to overlapping conversations about twentieth-century American Catholicism, urbanism…

***New blog post in Immigration and Ethnic History Society blog, Not from Here***

"Authors on Authors: Deborah Kanter & Stephen Koeth"

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***Call for Proposals - Arts and Migration Symposium***

"Leaving and Belonging: Making an Impact on Immigration and Displacement through Arts, Culture, and Storytelling"

More information here: iir.gmu.edu/articles/22954

***Check out the new Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social )****

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IEHS Mentorship at the 2026 OAH April 16-19, 2026 The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee will hold an in-person mentorship program for graduate students and early career scholars working on immigration and ethnic hist...

***Help with Mentorship Event at the OAH***

The IEHS is seeking MENTORS for its first in-person mentorship program for graduate students and early career scholars working on immigration and ethnic history at the OAH.

Register by 1/31/26: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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***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.

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Here's a new article from IEHS members Shuyue Liu and Changkang Li:

“Space, Time, and Progression: Narrating Chinese Americans Between Worlds in Literature,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2025): 1-14

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Empathy, curiosity, and critique: an AI-assisted mapping of non-academic reception of Asian American literature This study investigates how non-academic readers engage with Asian American literature through AI-assisted sentiment analysis of online reviews of Celeste Ng's novels. Ng's novels represent two mot...

New article by IEHS members Shuyue Liu and Changkang Li:

“Empathy, Curiosity, and Critique: an AI-assisted Mapping of Non-academic Reception of Asian American Literature,” Textual Practice (2025): 1-23.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dear IEHS Members:

This is your reminder that voting for three positions on the IEHS board ends today! The ballot was sent via email.

Thank you,
Nicole Greer Golda
IEHS Secretary

New book from IEHS member, David-James Gonzales:
Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California (Oxford University Press, 2025).

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Thank you for the shout out!

Cover of Hidetaka Hirota's "Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy" showing an Irish poor house sending its paupers to America

🗃️ The LPC (Likely to Become a Public Charge) provision in US immigration policy is, ominously, back in the news. For its historical origins, there is no better account than
@hidehirota.bsky.social 's book "Expelling the Poor" @academic.oup.com @iehs.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️ global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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