Life in America
Life in America collections offer students, faculty, and scholars critical perspectives, context, and background as recorded by the news media to support research across all academic disciplines to interpret the story behind the formation of modern-day America.... ...read more
The subject of immigration has never been more visible in the news media than it is today. As defined in this collection, an immigrant is a person who voluntarily left his or her country-of-origin seeking refuge, freedom, or simply the hope of a...
The story of America’s Indigenous peoples is rich and varied — a complex tapestry of achievements, dislocations, occupations, resistance, forced migrations, upheavals, and triumphs that have shaped American society and the American identity...
LGBTQ+ people have a long tradition of making significant and enduring contributions to the history of the United States and to American identity. Their story is rich and varied, a mosaic of discrimination, criminalization, oppression, resistance...


