Race and Ethnicity
Hispanic Migration to the United States
Carlos Sanabria (Hostos Community College, CUNY) discusses Hispanic migration to the U.S. in the post-World War Two era.
“They Said It Couldn’t Be Done…”
Former Tuskegee Airman Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. shares his personal history of race in the United States during World War II.
Freedom and the U.S. Civil War
Jeanie Attie (Long Island University) examines the significance of slavery to the people who fought in and lived during the American Civil War.
Land and Labor in the Era of Reconstruction
Martha Hodes (New York University) explores the many meanings of freedom that emerged at the end of the Civil War.
Immigration, Race, and Citizenship
Matthew Jacobson (Yale University) challenges conventional notions of America’s immigrant past.
