BobRingReflections

This article is about the history of immigration - legal immigration - to America.  I will write about the history of illegal immigration in a separate article. The current article will include immigration to British Colonial America and immigration to the United States of America, with important immigration policy sprinkled in, to provide context.  The paper will conclude with a discussion of current paths to U.S. citizenship for immigrants. Principal sources for this article include Pew Research Center; A Nation of Immigrants , by John F. Kennedy; “U.S. Immigration Before 1965,” history.com; “Historical Overview - Immigration,” Georgetown.edu; “Statistics  on Immigrants and Immigration in the U.S.,” Migration Policy Institute; and “The History of Immigration to the United States,” “Immigration to the United States,” “List of United States Immigration Laws,” and “History of Laws Concerning Immigration and Naturalization in the United States” - all on Wikipedia. ...

This article is about the history of photography.  For my purposes, photography is the process of creating durable images by recording light, either chemically, by means of a light-sensitive material, such as photographic film, or electronically, by means of an image sensor.  The word “photography” was created from the Greek roots of two words that combined mean “drawing with light.” Note:  Photography has been an important part of Ring-family life for 116 years.  In 1905, my Grandfather Ambrose Ring began taking photos of his mining exploits in southern Arizona.  In the 1990s, my brother Al Ring and I (re)discovered these old prints, started exploring where the images were taken, and began research about the mining history of the region.  Our research culminated in the publication of the book, “Ruby Arizona - Mining, Mayhem, and Murder,” in 2005.  This history of a borderland mining ghost town, set us off on a (retirement) career of Arizona historical...