Several years ago, I came across a Humans of New York post in which a woman talked about her experience writing a journal as part of an English class in high school. At first, she wrote all the required entries the night before, but after a while, she became in love with writing and continued […]
“But how did the immigration officials know?” A student interjected into a discussion of the mechanics of Chinese exclusion in class on themes in U.S. History.We had been considering a chapter from Stacey Smith’s Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle Over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. In the chapter Smith explores California’s antecedents to the […]
