News and Upcoming Events

Closing Event of Series This Tuesday
Immigration in Film Series

The Namesake
Tuesday, April 24th
6pm, 0106 Key
Comment: Dr. Marit Knollmueller

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In Case You Missed It...
 Born in the USA: The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Historical Perspective

The conference was a tremendous success, and videos are now posted on the conference site!

To view the page, click Here.

  Recent Press
Coverage on Armed Xenophobia Event

Click Here for the article in The Diamondback.


The Center for the History of the New America
 proudly announces

that Associate Professor Lisa Rose Mar ( Department of History & Asian American Studies Program) has won the 2010 Book Award in History from the Association for Asian American Studies for her book Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Who are we?

The Center for the History of the New America aims to make the University of Maryland the hub for understanding the long immigration history of this country, from 1500 to the present, and its connections to world history.

The Center will provide a distinctive institutional home for interdisciplinary and trans-national research, for training faculty and students, and for distributing information about the history of the immigrant experience to a broad public.

If you are interested in the study, the teaching, and the politics the long history of immigration from a global perspective and want to learn more about The Center for the History of the New America at the University of Maryland you are in the right place!

2115 Francis Scott Key     College Park, MD 20742     (301) 405-4266     fax: (301) 314-9399     iberlin@umd.edu