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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 1d

***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 · 2d

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 · 5d

***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.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 5d

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

***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.

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George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award

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

Check out this new blog host in our Immigration and Ethnic History Society blog, Not From Here: "Stop Jewhooing Superman" by @comicsscholar.bsky.social

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Stop Jewhooing Superman

James Gunn’s summer blockbuster Superman arrived in theaters July 11 to great fanfare. It stars the half-Jewish actor David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan, an honorary tribe member for her role as …

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 8d

***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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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 8d

***A Word of Thanks***

Many thanks to all the IEHS members who attended the first OAH-IEHS online event on September 24.

This was the first of three upcoming joint events. Watch out for more details about the other two over the next couple of months!

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

Have you seen our Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Monthly Digest for September yet?

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

Want to be included? Email [email protected]

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

***Immigration and Ethnic History Society Online Books Series***

Join @greeneland.bsky.social and Brendan A. Shanahan for a discussion of their recent publications! The panel will be moderated by Michael Salgarolo.

October 28, 2025, 4:15-5:30PM EST

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

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 13d

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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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to Naoko and @michaelrjin.bsky.social! This article makes a critical contribution to the field.

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

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 and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 14d

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

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

***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."

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

Be sure to check out IEHS member Vivian Yan-Gonzalez's new article:

“Left or Right, Loyal or Disloyal: Ideology, Partisanship, and Empire in the Construction of Interwar Japanese American Politics,” Pacific Historical Review 94, no. 3 (2025): 299-335.

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Left or Right, Loyal or DisloyalIdeology, Partisanship, and Empire in the Construction of Interwar Japanese American Politics

This article examines the first cohort of Japanese American voters in California in the interwar years, in order to explore the construction of racialized parameters on Japanese American political age...

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 19d

***Share Your News with Us***

The IEHS monthly digest comes out on the 27th of every month. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any announcements about events, grants, job ads, or public speaking engagements that you would like us to share with the IEHS community.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 22d

***Mentoring Event***

The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee is excited to hold this event on 10/2. The event is open to grad students, early career historians, and independent scholars working on North American immigration and ethnicity.

Register by 9/19: iehs.org/event/mentor...

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 23d

***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 · 23d

***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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Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social · 20d

Today! It’s been an honor to be part of this project!

Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 23d

Looking forward to launching "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social Sept 19, 7pm w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social &co. 🎉🎉🎉

Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · 23d

Join us this Thursday to celebrate the launch of the latest book in the NYU Press Glucksman Irish Diaspora series, Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move. We can't wait to see you all at Ireland House this week 🎉 @nyupress.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social

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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 25d

A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

The Ritual of Civic Apology

More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to share this essay on racial violence, civic apology, and the elusive dream of racial reconciliation.

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The Ritual of Civic Apology

More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

www.newyorker.com

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