Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present

Roger Daniels is professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. Otis L. Graham is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

The work by Daniels and Graham is welcomed for two important reasons. First it goes far to advance the still unrealized notion that historical study is debatable hence educational and second it does so authoritatively and readably on the enduringly significant issue of immigration policy.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 In Defense of American Immigration PolicyChapter 4 Legal Immigration in the 20th CenturyChapter 5 Legal Immigrants: Top 20 Nations of Birth, 1995-97Chapter 6 Major Provisions of Seven 20th Century Immigration StatuesChapter 7 Excerpt from Whom We Shall Welcome?Chapter 8 Excerpt from President Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at the Signing of the 1965 Immigration ActChapter 9 The Unfinished Reform: Regulating Immigration in the National InterestChapter 10 Excerpt from The Booker T. Washington Papers, 1889-95Chapter 11 Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, 1926Chapter 12 Excerpt from American: A Nation or Confusion?, 1928Chapter 13 Excerpt from "Our National Origins Quota System: The Mirror of America" by Robert C. Alexander, 1956Chapter 14 Excerpt from Senator Robert Byrd's Congressional Response to the 1965 Immigration Act, 1965Chapter 15 Statements from President William Jefferson Clinton, 1998Chapter 16 U.S. Population Growth If Immigration and Fertility Do Not ChangeChapter 17 Selected Readings