Data abstracted from Maryland histories that name immigrant ancestors, and in most cases provide information on at least one generation in America. Many entries

Provides information on searching passenger ship lists and indexes, naturalization and immigration records, and genealogical Websites to find records of ancesto

Historian Gordon Wood states it well: “Precisely because we are not a people held together by blood, no one knows who an American is except by what they belie

Devised by individual ethnic leaders and spread through ethnic media, banquets, and rallies, these myths were a response to being marginalized by the dominant g