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

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

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

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