Colorado typically experiences above-average rates of in-migration as well as out-migration. There are some indications that at least in the Denver area, net migration may slow as housing prices rise. Important regional differences migration differences across the state have become more pronounced over time, with the Front Range rapidly gaining population while other parts of the state see net outflows

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

Five characters in very different circumstances--from a domestic cook in Mumbai to a vagrant and his dancing bear--find the meanings of dislocation and the desire to get more out of life.

Hildy travels with her family to California in search of a better life, only to find that her father's promised job has been given away. Sneered at and called "Okies", they pitch ther tent under a bridge among other desitute migrant families.

"The National Road is a collection of essays about American places, each dealing with contentious matters: religion, politics, sex, race, poverty, loss and the stubborn persistence of national pride, despite abundant reasons for cynicism. An important question lies at the heart of this collection: what does it mean to "belong" in America in the midst of an era when rootedness to a particular piece of ground means less than at any time during our history?...

Twelve-year-old Millie's family is hesitant to leave the farm their family has owned for generations, but after Black Sunday they leave Oklahoma for California where they find a new kind of stuggle.

Introduces readers to the skills and technology that came together to help the people and animals escaping the 2018 California wildfires. Simple text and incredible close-up photographs focus on the amazing rescue work.

In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities offered by Ford in the hope of gaining greater economic security. As these workers came...

"Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis celebrating the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as...