Introduction / David A. Gerber -- Worlds Apart and Together : From Italian American Girlhood to Historian of Immigration / Virginia Yans -- Sidewalk Histories / Deborah Dash Moore -- Coal Town Chronicles and Scholarly Books / John Bodnar -- Ethnic and Racial Identities : A Polish Filipina's Progress in Chicago and the Profession / Barbara M. Posadas -- From Back of the Yards to the College Classroom / Dominic A. Pacyga -- Why Irish? : Writing Irish American History / Timothy J. Meagher -- In Our Own Words : Reclaiming Chinese/American/Women's History / Judy Yung -- Ordinary People / Eileen H. Tamura -- Americana / Maria Cristina Garcia -- Meddling in the American Dilemma : Examining Race, Migrations, and Identities from an Africana Transnational Perspective / Violet M. Showers Johnson -- Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream : Shaping America's Immigration Story from Uncle Mustafa to Auntie Rana : Journeys to Mexico, the U.S., and Lebanon / Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp -- Coda / Alan M. Kraut.