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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 14d

Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social

Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 2d

***Emmy Nomination for IEHS member***

Congratulations to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social for having an episode he co-wrote and co-hosted for PBS Wisconsin Education nominated for the Emmy Award in the category for Outstanding Achievement for Children/Youth/Teens!

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How Did Early Airplane Pilots Navigate Without Modern Tech? | The Look Back | PBS LearningMedia

How did airplane pilots know where to fly before they had GPS to help guide them? Airplanes are more than just a way to get from one place to another quickly—they are historical artifacts! To keep tho...

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 3d

Check out a FREE article of Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ):

"'As bad as anybody else': The Innocents, Political Violence, and the Creole-Italian Alliance in Reconstruction New Orleans" by Christopher Joseph Cook

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“As bad as anybody else”: The Innocents, Political Violence, and the Creole-Italian Alliance in Reconstruction New Orleans

Abstract. Coordinated, violent political attacks increased throughout the months leading up to the 1868 presidential election in New Orleans and the surrounding area. Among the various Democratic orga...

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 6d

***Awards from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS)***

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

Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines.

iehs.org/awards/

Awards Overview

Visit the post for more.

iehs.org

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 6d

***Fall Online Book Event***

Join us on Tuesday, October 28 at 4:15 PM EDT for the next online book event with @greeneland.bsky.social and Brendan A. Shanahan. Michael Salgarolo will moderate the discussion.

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

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 7d

Very much looking forward to discussing "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery" with @rbatzell.bsky.social, Lara Vapnek, Richard Price, and & Naomi R. Willians in @lawcha.bsky.social's 2025 Labor Book Big Forum, Friday, October 17, 2pm to 4pm ET online ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Registration details for Friday, October 17, 2pm to 4pm ET: https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/FCXIyoNuQf6R3AA-ymF2uA#/registration

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 7d

***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 graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history.

iehs.org/awards/georg...

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award

Visit the post for more.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 9d

***New OAH lecturers***

Congratulations to Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) members Adrian De Leon and Omar Valerio-Jimenez for being selected to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Lectureship Program!

OAH Lecturers can be booked online:

www.oah.org/lectures/con...

OAH | Contact the Distinguished Lectureship ProgramOAH | Contact the Distinguished Lectureship Program

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Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · 9d

We're so excited to have @sineadgleeson.bsky.social at GIH this Thursday to discuss her novel "Hagstone" in conversation with Douglas Stuart.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations, Gautham, on this important and timely work.

Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 10d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 10d

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 11d

Here it is, my 243rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 243 (9/28/25) - Black and White and Read All Over

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you, Kathleen!

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 13d

Be sure to check out the new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History on "Immigration and Citizenship" co-edited by @irpinaingiro.bsky.social and @migrantherstory.bsky.social:

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

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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 13d

If your family history research involves Irish and Italian emigration, Rituals of Migration nyupress.org/978147982513... belongs on your bookshelf. #genealogy

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13d

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):

www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...

Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee” on JSTOR

Karl Jacoby, Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee”, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 333-362

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 14d

What a fun night! Thanks to our fantastic hosts at @gihnyu.bsky.social

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 15d

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines.

iehs.org/awards/

Awards Overview

Visit the post for more.

iehs.org

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 15d

Commentaries will be provided by Lara Vapnek (St. John’s University), Kevin Kenny (@kevinkenny.bsky.social) (New York University), Richard Price (University of Maryland), and Naomi Williams (Rutgers). Julie Greene (@greeneland.bsky.social) will moderate.

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 15d

We are excited to announce Labor's Big Book Forum for 2025! Scheduled for Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET via Zoom, this year we feature Rudi Batzell's (@rbatzell.bsky.social) new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social)

A flier that says: 2025 Labor Big Book Forum; Friday Oct 17 2-4 ET ; Register Today! with the link: go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025 ; and has a picture of the book "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery" which features four sets of raised fists, alternating between red and blue.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 16d

New article from IEHS members Naoko Wake and @michaelrjin.bsky.social in the @historians.org American Historical Review:

Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora: Intergenerational Suffering and Justice-Seeking Among Korean Pihaeja

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Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora: Intergenerational Suffering and Justice-Seeking Among Korean Pihaeja

Abstract. Uncovering the voices of the Korean diasporic atomic bomb survivors across multilingual and transimperial spaces in archives and memories in East

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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social · 16d

The recording of our History of the Present webinar on Birthright Citizenship is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEH5...
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social @skantrow.bsky.social @cnacken1.bsky.social @michelewaslin.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social

Birthright Citizenship: A History of the Present Webinar

YouTube video by Immigration History Research Center

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 17d

***Upcoming Event: Birthright Citizenship - Future of the Past***

September 24, 2025
6:00 PM ET
Zoom

Join us for a discussion on birthright citizenship. The panel will focus on Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship."

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Birthright Citizenship - Future of the Past. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship," which upended more than a hundred and fifty years of American l...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 22d

@gihnyu.bsky.social Thursday, September 18 at 7pm

Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · Jul 7

🗃️"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...

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

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 24d

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 24d

Really excited to be here for the event. Have decamped to the Bobst Library Special Collection in anxious anticipation.

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 24d

Really excited to be here for the event. Have decamped to the Bobst Library Special Collection in anxious anticipation.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 24d

***Attention IEHS members***

In the fall of 2025, the IEHS will choose three new Executive Board members, whose terms will run from 2026 to 2029.

Please email your suggestions for nominees to Adam Goodman at [email protected]. Self-nominations are welcome.

Deadline: 10/17/25

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 24d

***Know Your Rights Cards***

Under the U.S. Constitution, all people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections. The Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s red cards give examples of how people can exercise these rights.

www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...

Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC

All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 24d

We have a full house, but here's the registration link for Thursday, September 19 @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️:
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

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