June is National Immigrant Heritage Month! Join us as we celebrate our nation's proud immigrants by reading two books about their experiences. The first tells the story of immigration through Angel Island, and the second explains the development of Minneapolis's "Nordeast" neighborhood as a result of successive waves of immigration.
The Minnesota Digital Library recently published a series of online exhibitions that explore the history and culture of Minnesota's immigrants. This three-part series utilizes digital collections to understand where Minnesota's immigrants came from, the experiences they had, and how they preserved their culture in Minnesota.
On April 30, 1975, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces and ended the American war in Vietnam. The Fall of Saigon had tremendous repercussions for the people in Southeast Asia whose lives had been torn apart by the war. Former U.S.
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