Years Later, How Has the Immigration Act of 1924 Changed America?” was moderated by Bill Scher and featured scholars Rebecca ...

Plus, why the Senate should not bow to Trump on recess appointments, and the hard lesson to learn on immigration — all in the ...

The election is over. So where are we? The calendar says we’re in 2024. But the history books say 1924, give or take a few ...

Noted legal scholar Jerry Rishe shared a very interesting presentation with the Yiddish Culture Club about the Johnson-Reed ...

For the US, one could say, 2024 is a reminder of 1924. Yes, the nation held an election a century ago—yes, it was a ...

The quotas were renewed in 1924 and again in 1952 ... On this anniversary of the act, Americans must remember that the 50-year tide of immigration that their nation’s experienced was never ...

For decades we’ve been taught to be ashamed of the period of immigration restriction the law inaugurated. And it’s true that many supporters of the 1924 immigration law were motivated by ...

This year is the centennial of the infamous (it was praised by eugenics advocates, the KKK, and even by Hitler) Immigration Act of 1924, the first major piece of U.S. immigration law covering all ...

With its Immigration Act of 1924, Congress created a permanent quota system, based on national origin, that choked off immigration from other nations in favor of northern and western Europe.

Although the Japanese had not been subjected to total exclusion like the Chinese, they were, by virtue of the 1790 Naturalization Act, ineligible to become naturalized citizens. Affecting many other ...