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Resistance Against Japanese American Incarceration Camps

Spotlight on Research: Guest author Shuma Iwai was awarded a 2025 Grant-in-Aid Award at the…

University LibrariesNovember 13, 2025

"I was arrested for taking this railway scene. Starved peasants wait weeklong for trains to some objective they vainly imagine is the Promised Land where they may find enough food to keep alive," wrote photographer James Abbe. Image reproduced courtesy of The James Abbe Archive.

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Breaking the silence: a new documentary grapples with the Holodomor’s legacy in Minnesota

“Holodomor: Minnesota Memories of Genocide in Ukraine,” a documentary by Zina Poletz Gutmanis, was screened…

Adria CarpenterApril 22, 2024

UMN graduate students Isabel Bethke, Nadia DelMedico, and Kimberly Horner.

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Exploring Im/Migration Archives: Insights from the Immigration History Research Center Summer Fellows

Spotlight on Research: Guest authors and UMN graduate students Isabel Bethke, Nadia DelMedico, and Kimberly…

University LibrariesMarch 21, 2024

Ayantu Tibeso transferring photographs from original envelopes into archival sleeves for preservation.

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A Reflection piece on “La Prensa de Minnesota,” a newly available collection in the Immigration History Research Center Archives

Minnesota is home to a large number of Latine community members, including immigrants. Since the…

Ayantu TibesoFebruary 12, 2024

Thai newspaper clipping, courtesy of the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Records, IHRCA, Box 157.

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Vietnamese Migrations and Narratives of Unsettlement

Spotlight on Research: Guest author Ann Ngoc Tran was awarded the Grant-in-Aid Award at the…

Adria CarpenterSeptember 15, 2023

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Reflections from an artist-in-residence

Working with archival materials in quiet reading rooms for many hours during my spring residency…

Mark EngebretsonAugust 2, 2018

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Happy Anniversary!

The Immigration History Research Center Archives, with our colleague Immigration History Research Center, celebrates 50…

Mark EngebretsonNovember 17, 2015

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People on the Move

Founded in 1965, the Immigration History Research Center & Archives is the oldest and largest…

Karen Carmody-McIntoshJune 23, 2015

Past Exhibits

Juhla!: Celebrating 150 years of Finnish immigration to Minnesota

Through January 30, 2015 What: Juhla!: Celebrating 150 years of Finnish immigration to Minnesota When:…

Karen Carmody-McIntoshOctober 24, 2014

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Immigration History Research Center Archives

Resistance Against Japanese American Incarceration Camps

Breaking the silence: a new documentary grapples with the Holodomor’s legacy in Minnesota

Exploring Im/Migration Archives: Insights from the Immigration History Research Center Summer Fellows

A Reflection piece on “La Prensa de Minnesota,” a newly available collection in the Immigration History Research Center Archives

Vietnamese Migrations and Narratives of Unsettlement

Reflections from an artist-in-residence

People on the Move

Juhla!: Celebrating 150 years of Finnish immigration to Minnesota

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