Introduction: Immigration : An American History --
Founding Immigrants : Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century America --
Opening the Door to Europe's People --
From Two Continents, Bound for Two Coasts, 1820-1882 --
Americans React, Regulations Begin, 1820-1882 --
The Masses Arrive as the Door Starts to Close, 1882-1921 --
What Americans Said about the Immigrants, 1882-1921 --
Closing the Gates : National Origins and the Great Depression --
Newcomers and World War II --
Prosperity, the Braceros, and Cold War Refugees, 1945-1965 --
The Age of Reform : Braceros, Immigrants, and Refugees --
A New Open Door : Immigration in the Twentieth Century's Last Decades --
Immigration Politics and Restrictionism, 1970-2001 --
The Era of Border Security : Immigration after 9/11 --
Epilogue Past, Present, Future.