Syrian refugees

Civil war destroyed their homes. These Syrian refugees are learning how to rebuild them.

"If we’re not doing it, if we’re not going to do it, I don’t think anyone else will.”

Make American Humanitarianism Great Again

by Bradley J. Brewer

Accepting refugees from Syria will strengthen America – a lesson we learned after World War II when we welcomed German refugees from Europe.

Do Countries Have a Legal Obligation to Protect Refugees Fleeing Oppression?

by Jennifer Freilach

They do and here’s how that came about.

The Horrible Laws that Blocked Jews from the US after World War 2 but Let Nazis in

by Richard Rashke

Truman fought for the Jews but lost in Congress.

The Long History of Hostility toward Refugees

by Laura Madokoro

We even saw it in the Cold War when refugees by the hundreds of thousands fled China after Mao’s victory.

Harry Truman’s Heroic Fight for Refugees (And Congress’s Limp Reaction)

by Richard Rashke

The story the next president of the United States should read.

When the World Looked Away as Jews Died in Europe

by Richard Rashke

The appalling indifference to Jewish refugees in World War II.

We Aren’t Ignoring the Plight of Refugees as We Did in the 1930s. But …

by Peter Fritzsche

Our behavior toward refugees in our midst has been deplorably similar.

So We’re Ignoring the Plight of Syrian Refugees? It’s an Old Story.

by Richard Rashke

The first in a series of articles about the world’s indifference to Jewish refugees in the 1930s.

We Had Our Own Refugee Crisis. You Know it as the Civil War.

by Chandra Manning

The refugees were slaves who fled their masters’ estates to find refuge behind Union lines.

Can history help us manage humanitarian crises?

by Richard Breitman

This question is particularly timely given the massive outflow of refugees from Syria and the problems of admitting large numbers of refugees to other countries, including the United States.

The Disconcerting Reason We Aren’t Racing to Embrace Syrian Refugees

by Bethany Sharpe

We don’t just fear young adult males, but children and women, too.

The Unintended Consequences of War: The Origins of America’s First Refugee Crisis

by Michael A. McDonnell

There’s a lesson here if only we open our eyes and see it.

Reagan Welcomed Hundreds of Thousands of Boat People. And Today the GOP Is Demonizing Refugees?

by Joe Krulder

What gives?

Deny Syrian Refugees Entry to the US? We’ve Been Here Before.

by Leonard Greenspoon

“Discrimination against immigrants or refugees based on religion isn’t new in the U.S. It happened to my family almost 100 years ago.”

The United States’ tried and true anti-refugee history

Gallup has detailed a number of instances throughout history in which Americans were confronted with potentially accepting refugees. And almost without exception, there has been significantly more opposition than support.

Anne Frank Faced Challenges Similar to Syrian Refugees, Richard Breitman Says

"The State Department determined that anyone who had close relatives in Germany, the Soviet Union or fascist Italy were a security threat, and even though Otto and Anne were in the Netherlands."

Oh, No, It’s Happening Again!

by Roy E. Finkenbine

America is caught in the grip of xenophobic hysteria.

“Give us Your Huddled Masses” But ….

by Brian Glyn Williams

Syrians Need Not Apply?

Roanoke mayor approvingly cites WW 2 Japanese internment camps in defense of exclusion of Syrians

Historians immediately responded with scorn.