The author interrogates a mid-nineteenth-century map for German emigrants, using it as a way to talk about the central concept behind this blog, "migrant knowledge". An 1853 Map for German-Speaking Emigrants Jan 30, 2022 Mark R. Stoneman
Abstracts seven posts about migration and knowledge that were published at the History of Knowledge blog in the past two years. Linking Migration and Knowledge: Seven Viewpoints at ‘History of Knowledge’ Mar 14, 2019 Mark R. Stoneman
Documents from the Qing dynasty's borderlands are crucial for understanding migrations in these regions, but accessing and contextualizing them is complicated by a unique set of political and archival challenges from the past and present. The ‘Manchurian Archive’ and the Discourse on ‘Lost’ and ‘Returned’ Documents in China Mar 12, 2022 Christina Philips
Introduces a 6-part miniseries analyzing 6 sources of knowledge of the US for prospective migrants in Baden in the late 19th century. What Did They Know?: An Introduction to the Miniseries Oct 28, 2022 Martin Bemmann