Added on November 14, 2018 WWI Centennial Searching for a Warm Home: Women and the Italian Refugee Crisis of World War I In a 1918 article about aid programs for refugee women and children in Italy, Ernesta Fasciotti recalled an encounter with […]
Added on June 20, 2018 Historical essay What Will Today’s Immigration Detention Centers Look like to Future Americans? This piece originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2016 and is reprinted here with permission of the author. Janet Golden’s latest book is Babies […]
Added on August 22, 2017 Historical essay The Trauma of Displacement: How History Can Help Us Understand the Refugee Experience In February of 1915, a fifty-five year old woman, who we will call Ella, was admitted to London’s Colney Hatch […]