by Miguel Giron | Sep 14, 2023 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post, Uncategorized
On a cold and windy February morning, I find myself waking up at 5:30am in order to catch a 6:30am train to begin my commute of the day. I account for extra time because I’ve never been to today’s particular destination on the schedule. I am in Washington DC... 
by Miguel Giron | Aug 31, 2023 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post, Uncategorized
A few days before families gathered for Christmas in El Paso, bailiffs in Vernon, Texas, were busy wrestling a noose from the neck of Rev. Morrison’s lifeless body. Morrison had been tried and sentenced to death by hanging, for his wife’s murder. The rope used to... 
by Miguel Giron | Aug 9, 2023 | Authors on Authors, Blog, Featured Post, guest post
A conversation between Kevin Kenny, author of The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic, and Christen Sasaki, author of Pacific Confluence. Kenny’s book shows hows slavery was an essential component in the making of US immigration policy in the 19th... 
by Miguel Giron | Jul 31, 2023 | Authors on Authors, Blog, Featured Post, guest post
A conversation between poet Vona Groarke, author of the multi-genre, poetic narrative, Hereafter, and Mary Burke, author of the cultural survey, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History. Groarke’s book probes the limits of archival record and family memory... 
by Miguel Giron | Jul 19, 2023 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post, Uncategorized
On April 29, 2023, two hundred spectators anxiously awaited the unveiling of Mamie Till-Mobley’s statue at Argo Community High School in Summit, IL, amidst drizzling rain.[1] The street was closed off from end to end by the police and fire departments as... 
by Miguel Giron | Mar 29, 2023 | Blog, Featured Post
This years Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Los Angeles (March 30-April 2, 2023) has a wonderful program including several panels solicited by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society! Here are a list of IEHS panels to check out (the full OAH...