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Shannon Coppa posted a photo and story of her refugee great grandparent's family. They fled the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide

An affidavit translated from the original Slovak attesting to Czech immigrant Stephen Strelec's ability to financially support his wife and two daughters upon their arrival to the U.S.

My grandparents, father, and aunt, ca. 1935. I don't know all the details, but apparently my grandfather spent much of the '20s working construction in the States, and would go back to Italy periodically. I guess Pops was conceived on one of those…

McBeth's maternal kin.

A protest is held under the Student Debt Finish Line at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

This story was only one portion of the 1934 article titled “From the Memories of Old Czech Settlers in America”. From the Life of Antonín Wíša, For Kalendář Amerikán.

A group of U.S. Service Members were part of a group of 125 immigrants that received their citizenship on Liberty Island in New York City Oct. 28, 2011. The event was part of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty's…

Voting instructions to recent immigrants from the Secretary of State for Minnesota Mike Holm, issued between 1920 - 1930. Featured on the Minnesota Historical Society's Collections Up Close blog.