- Introduction: The Nation of Immigrants
- Immigrants in Motion: Getting There and Getting Started
- Pre-Columbian Migrations: The First American Immigrants
- Spanish Colonization and Immigration
- English Immigration
- Scots and Scotch-Irish Immigration
- French and Dutch Immigration
- African American Immigration
- German Immigration
- Irish Immigration
- Scandinavian Immigration
- Westward Migration: 1783–1912
- Forced Migrations
- Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Immigration
- Jewish Immigration
- Italian and Greek Immigration
- Eastern European Immigration
- Urbanization
- Arab World Immigration
- Asian Indian, Korean, and Southeast Asian Immigration
- Mexican Immigration
- Latino and Caribbean Migration and Immigration
