Kunal M. Parker, Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000 (2015).

Allison Brownell Tirres

Over the past few decades, historians have enriched our understanding of the concept and experience of citizenship in United States history. The historiography shares some common features. Narratives of citizenship and immigration tend to be progressive: that is, they demonstrate the ever-widening circle of inclusion of “others” over time (think, for example, of histories of married women’s property rights, the civil rights movement, or the […]