America: Promised Land

From Colonial times to the Civil War, the history of how America was populated by immigrants and the forces that set them in motion; descendants of immigrants tell their ancestors' stories, focusing on their hardships, triumphs and contributions.

From the 1900s to the 1970s, the history of how immigrants transformed the United States; the patterns of migration with a focus on the massive movements of people since the Industrial Revolution, including the Great Migration.