Immigration History

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    • An American History
    • By: Carl J. Bon Tempo, Hasia R. Diner
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present....

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    • The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
    • By: Jonathan Blitzer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes....

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    • Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
    • By: Aviva Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States....

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    • The History and Legacy of Asian Immigrants in the United States Over the Last 200 Years
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Steve Knupp
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • One of the most important and memorable events of the United States’ westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January 1848....

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    • How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History
    • By: Todd Bensman
    • Narrated by: Frank Block
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The time has come to acknowledge that America is weathering the worst mass border migration event in the nation's history. Millions of foreign nationals have overrun the southern border, starting on Inauguration Day in 2021....

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    • The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
    • By: Irving Howe
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 35 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World....

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    • By: Margaret P. Haddix
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • The year is 1910, and the working conditions at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory are deplorable....

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    • A People's History
    • By: Małgorzata Szejnert, Sean Gasper Bye - translator
    • Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From Annie Moore, the Irishwoman who was the first to be processed there, to Arne Peterssen, the Norwegian who was the last to be taken away from the island in 1954, Ellis Island weaves together the personal experiences of forgotten individuals....

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    • African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
    • By: Niambi Michele Carter
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic....

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    • Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
    • By: Erika Lee
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of US immigration history, but we know little about its consequences....

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    • Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
    • By: Jose Antonio Vargas
    • Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 810 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “[T]he most famous undocumented immigrant in America”, tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms....

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    • By: Myles Dungan
    • Narrated by: Clinton Wade
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A fascinating and entertaining look at the history of the American West, this book will surprise many and make every Irish American proud....

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    • A Hmong Family Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States....

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    • A Story of America After the 1965 Immigration Law
    • By: Tom Gjelten
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • A Nation of Nations follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually "Americanize"....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
    • By: Helen Zia
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 492 ratings
    • The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution....

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    • The History of Ellis Island
    • By: Vincent Cannato
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Professor Vincent J. Cannato delivers a definitive history of America's landmark port of entry....

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