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Staging the Compelling Question
Students are introduced to the themes of the compelling question by exploring the concept of borders and learning about the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Supporting Question 1: The History of the Angel Island Immigration Station
Students explore the supporting question “How did the Angel Island Immigration Station both reflect and enforce borders within American society?”
Supporting Question 2: The Impacts of Detention on Immigrants and Their Descendants
Students explore the supporting question “How did border enforcement at the Angel Island Immigration Station impact immigrants and their descendants?”
Supporting Question 3: Navigating the Borders of National Belonging
Students explore the supporting question “How does the history of immigration through Angel Island help us understand how we create and challenge borders today?”
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II
The last emperors of Germany and Russia posing together in 1905.
Kurt Dreyer's Son
Kurt Dreyer’s son wears the boots his father, a German soldier, sent him from Poland during World War II. Meine stiefel means “my boots.”
La Guespy Children's Home
Jews living at a children's home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, with their director, Juliette Usach, 1941.
Las Patronas
"Las Patronas" leader, Norma Romero, gives food to migrants in Las Patronas town, Veracruz State, Mexico on August 9, 2018.
Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, 1930
German-American Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, Germany’s first full-length talkie.
Mass Grave in Vinnytsia, Ukraine
A member of Einsatzgruppe D, a mobile killing unit, about to shoot a man kneeling by a mass grave in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, in 1942.
Migrants in Serbia
Migrants walk near a border between Serbia and Croatia, near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 22, 2015.