The Chinese Exclusion Acts in the U.S. were enacted after the transcontinental railroad was completed and became the foundation for the racist and woefully outdated current immigration laws. https://www.history.com/articles/chinese-exclusion-act-1882
George, How do you get all the photos and posters for each week’s piece? Are you able to research from your computer? I remember my early days at Yale we had to research by requesting books and journal articles from other libraries. Doing what you do weekly we could not even imagine. Mary Ellen
Yes -- as somebody who did his grad-school work in front of microfiche machines in a sad basement, what's available today is amazing. I wouldn't be able to do this without access to amazing public-domain archives of images. I've meant for a while to write a kind of ode to websites like Wikimedia Commons, The Met, the Library of Congress, and the like (I especially appreciate the museums that provide public domain images, because many of them are stingy sticklers about image use). They have done such a service to culture by making this stuff available to everyone.
The Chinese Exclusion Acts in the U.S. were enacted after the transcontinental railroad was completed and became the foundation for the racist and woefully outdated current immigration laws. https://www.history.com/articles/chinese-exclusion-act-1882
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George, How do you get all the photos and posters for each week’s piece? Are you able to research from your computer? I remember my early days at Yale we had to research by requesting books and journal articles from other libraries. Doing what you do weekly we could not even imagine. Mary Ellen
Yes -- as somebody who did his grad-school work in front of microfiche machines in a sad basement, what's available today is amazing. I wouldn't be able to do this without access to amazing public-domain archives of images. I've meant for a while to write a kind of ode to websites like Wikimedia Commons, The Met, the Library of Congress, and the like (I especially appreciate the museums that provide public domain images, because many of them are stingy sticklers about image use). They have done such a service to culture by making this stuff available to everyone.