They Remember America by Theodore Saloutos tackles a big blind spot in U.S. immigration history: the people who went back. Using Greek-Americans as a focused case, Saloutos studies voluntary repatriation primarily from 1908–1924 (peaking around 1911–14 and 1919–21), noting that millions across nationalities declared intentions to return. He frames the project as a prototype others could replicate for Italians, Poles, English, etc., where archives are richer. With little prior scholarship to lean on, he builds a mixed, field-driven method: preliminary interviews in U.S. Greek communities; shipboard conversations en route to Greece; then extensive, on-the-ground interviewing across Athens, provincial cities, and islands. He triangulates with whatever official and press sources he can find, while openly flagging constraints—thin archives, recall biases, performative answers, bystander interference, and the emotional volatility of a population shaped by war, occupation, and civil conflict.