This episode explores the lives of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and Harry Washington. Their experiences show how dreams of attaining a more equal society inspired immigrants to participate in the American Revolution...

Entrepreneurial ambition inspired both Norman Assing and Louis Pio to immigrate to the United States....

 As the Supreme Court cases of Chy Lung v. Freeman and Wong Kim Ark v. US illustrate, Chinese fought against the onset of discriminatory laws by hiring lawyers and invoking conditions from the US Constitution...

This episode features the lives of Carmelita Torres and Aurora Mardiganian, who came to the United States in the early twentieth century...

Like water, immigrants flow into economic and social spaces in the United States that are in need of workers and residents, making many adaptations in order to fit themselves into American lives...