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Greek immigration to the United States never reached the scale of Irish or Italian immigration. At its peak in the… Read more

Walk through the North End in Boston, Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, or South Philadelphia, and you’ll still see the… Read more

For decades, Italian American identity in popular culture has been defined by a narrow set of stereotypes: mobsters, pasta, loud… Read more

In 1924, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act. The law established strict… Read more

Modern debates about refugees and asylum often ignore America’s own history of desperate migration. The Irish who fled the Great… Read more

The myth of universal white privilege has always been more complicated than modern discourse suggests. For Irish immigrants arriving in… Read more

There’s a specific kind of grief that comes with scrolling through Duolingo lessons in a language your great-grandmother spoke fluently—but… Read more