Fantasmagoría Eterna: The Hanging of Antonio Flores
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...
Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Christen Sasaki
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...
Authors on Authors: Mary Burke & Vona Groarke
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...
A Mother’s Legacy in a Multicultural Neighborhood
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...
Concerned Members of the Texas State Historical Association create petition calling on J. P. Bryan, the Interim Executive Director of the TSHA, to desist in his legal action against Dr. Nancy Baker Jones, the President of the Association, and his attacks on the Association and the Board.
The IEHS offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.