NYT publishes free 'Gift Article' 'How a Nation of Immigrants Traces Its Roots'

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The New York Times is temporarily offering its interactive feature "How a Nation of Immigrants Traces Its Roots" as a free Gift Article, an interactive map based on the U.S. Census Bureau 2019, 2024 American Community Survey. The piece plots nearly 200 self-identified ancestries by census tract and illustrates local histories, from Greeks who settled Tarpon Springs, Florida after Dodecanese sponge divers transformed the gulf coast industry to Portuguese and Cape Verdean communities in New Bedford shaped by 19th-century whaling links. It highlights Basque settlers in Boise who shifted from gold-seeking to sheep herding, Yemeni workers recruited by Ford in Detroit, and Vietnamese refugees resettled near New Orleans and Houston who continued shrimping. The article traces broader patterns: Italian settlement in New York, African American descendants of enslaved people who migrated north, Scandinavian farmers in the upper Midwest after the Civil War, and longstanding Mexican presence in the Southwest. It notes Chinese exclusion that limited entry for decades and says newer arrivals are spreading beyond historic Chinatowns, and that some Americans now identify simply as American while Native nations such as the Iroquois, Navajo, Inupiat and Chickasaw have descendants nationwide. The Times emphasizes that over 250 years the country absorbed more than 100 million people and argues that current restrictive immigration policies, likened to past exclusionary measures, will shape how future Americans understand their heritage.

John Sipher

@johnsipher.bsky.social

Insane we live in a country where journalists can report this and legislators and investigators do nothing about it. (Gift Article). History will not be kind! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1418h ago

Cassandra of America8

The Coup is ongoing and only a few of us seem to see it. Nightmarish

Really?5

Trump makes them the kind of money that boring Biden never did bsky.app/profile/scar...

Synchronizing4

Been reading Federalist Papers & writing of Adams, Jefferson, Washington. Hamilton, Madison & Jay assumed leaders will at some point try to seize more power & self deal, they stressed other 2 branches MUST keep other in check. Funny how so called originalists and patriots are ignoring all of that.

Jerome Ludwig3

The present will not be kind.

LastGreatAct 🇺🇦🇻🇪🇬🇱2

Project 2025 They said they would do it & put it in writing. Now watch Pulte partially declassify info on voter interference to back Trump. It’s fucking genius because the only way to prove Pulte is not releasing the whole truth is to release classified info illegally. Secession vs. Civil war?

Quoting this

Khashoggi's Ghost87

Though the DOJ "has yet to win a single lawsuit — it has lost at least 10 so far, as well as one federal appeal — election officials and Democrats fear the battle over voting records may be used in a post-election effort to challenge, discredit or spread disinformation about midterm results."

Clara Jeffery

@clarajeffery.bsky.social

A nation of immigrants. This interactive map lets you zoom in by census track on which countries of origin are most prominent where. Super cool. Happy 4th. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1475h ago

Clara Jeffery3

Here for example is a medium zoom of LA

Oh No!1

Native Americans are not immigrants!

Bill Kristol

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

"Ford celebrated America as a land of immigrants. He wasn’t defensive. He made the case for immigration. He argued we were “richly rewarded” for being a nation of immigrants...Reagan saw as immigration as 'one of the most important sources of America’s greatness.'" open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

1835h ago

Thomas [DARK MODE], DO5

Gerald Ford opened up our borders to 135,000 Southeast Asian refugees that had been displaced by the Vietnam War. Found them homes, sponsors, and helped them settle into their new lives: immigrationhistory.org/item/1975-in...

snowmein.bsky.social1

For a minute I thought you were talking about Henry.

Cheryl Rofer

@cherylrofer.bsky.social

Look at the graph in this gift article and ask yourself who was president from 2021 through 2024.

195h ago

JD Eames

@peaceablewriter.com

bell hooks book sales went up thx to JD Vance. Gift article NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/b...

181h ago

Stardust 🌏🎬

@stardustbluepr.com

Gift Article 💥 “Ukraine says the goal is to take the war to Russia and to get Mr. Putin to agree to end the conflict. But Mr. Putin, even as his ability to isolate Russian society from the war’s effect has diminished, has expressed defiance and dug in.”

1513h ago

Manohla Dargis

@manohladargis.bsky.social

gift article The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

64h ago

Elizabeth

@invisiblebetty.bsky.social

In case you haven't seen this -- the administration seems to be going all out on their attacks on immigrants -- just in time for the 4th of July. Note that "ICE officers have arrested people at check-ins, with immigration authorities" Gift article-- read for free.

513h ago

Yonette Joseph

@sugarcane99.bsky.social

How a Nation of Immigrants Traces Its Roots Melting pot, tapestry, mosaic, kaleidoscope, salad bowl. Every cliché is true. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

61h ago

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Bring Back The Twin Star Rocket4

will never be over how stark the segregation line in Austin still is

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸2

My old neighborhood: refugees from Burma joining what was a bunch of German Americans.

saltyv.bsky.social

@saltyv.bsky.social

Another gift article for you ! This guy is amazing and I say that after listening to him in conversation with Jonathan Fink on a podcast. See a link to it in a post below. “ I spent my life fighting Russian spies. They haven’t been this reckless for years” www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e82e0af...

612h ago

jimchee.bsky.social

@jimchee.bsky.social

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

55h ago

Michael Markman

@mickeleh.bsky.social

Just one of the many ways that Trump is working to rig elections in his favor. The @nytimes.com has a big story on this (gift article). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

62h ago

Monkeytime

@tmorman.bsky.social

Excellent article with direct quotes from egg company execs as they conspired to raise prices, then high-fived each other. From a federal court complaint about how execs gamed a needlessly complex egg price bidding system that hid the backroom planning. WSJ gift link: www.wsj.com/business/ret...

43h ago

Margaret Fosmoe

@mfosmoe.bsky.social

Architect John Burgee ND '56, age 92, recalls plans of 40 years ago for a Donald Trump 60-story "Castle" in NYC. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/a...

65h ago

That Bishop Plainview Guy

@sundodgerband.bsky.social

Can we all just call it what it is? A Ponzi scheme. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

44h ago

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NYT publishes free 'Gift Article' 'How a Nation of Immigrants Traces Its Roots'

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