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Author : Virginia Yans-McLaughlin,Marjorie Lightman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : OCLC:732875128
Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-27
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781420513073
Readers will learn about the early fear, paranoia, and unfair practices that immigrants faced in America, and how that has or hasn't changed over time. They will evaluate why immigration is seen as either a benefit or burden. The final chapter is dedicated to discussing tension and battles over borders.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : UCR:31210012663835
Author : Virginia Yans-McLaughlin,Marjorie Lightman,Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1565843649
Ellis Island has become an invaluable resource center on immigration and genealogy as well as a national tourist attraction, widely praised for its excellent displays and informative exhibits. Now, the best of the Ellis Island Museum is available to readers in this book that provides an exciting overview of the island, placing it in historical context with a concise history of immigration and global migration. Photos, charts, map, graphs & cartoons.
Author : John Powell
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781438110127
Presents an illustrated A-Z reference containing more than 300 entries related to immigration to North America, including people, places, legislation, and more.
Author : John S. Berman,Museum of the City of New York
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0760738882
Called both the "Island of Hope" and "Island of Tears," Ellis Island has a history as rich and surprising as that of the immigrants who passed through its doors. Between 1892 and 1954, it was the first stop for some 12 million immigrants coming to America, a tiny speck of land in New York Harbor that served as their gateway to new lives in a strange new world. Their experiences are put into vivid historical context, highlighted with riveting firsthand accounts and vintage photographs that eloquently capture their hope and heartbreak. In addition, you'll read accounts of the hardworking officials manning the station and the reformers who strove to salvage the immigrants' humanity on their journey through the Golden Door.
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781476502533
You choose which path you would take if you were an immigrant arriving at Ellis Island.
Author : John T. Cunningham
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 073852428X
More than 17 million immigrants came here-to the front door of America-from 1890 to 1915 in what has been called the largest mass migration in human history. In the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island is one of the nation's most important historical sites and is one of our most heavily visited national monuments. Its story is the story of our people and their struggles for freedom and dreams of a better life.
Author : Caitlin Merrick,Gillian Houghton
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499435061
This fascinating look into American history uncovers how some of our ancestors came to the United States, seeking freedom and fortune, and often risking everything to make a home in America. This resource tells the story of the immigrant history of the United States, using documents and photographs from the heyday of one of the most important immigration ports. The history of Ellis Island is revealed to be one of grit, misfortune, and luck that is both true of the island and of the people it welcomed to America?s shores.
Author : Louise Peacock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780689830266
The experiences of people coming to the United States from many different lands are conveyed in the words of a contemporary young girl visiting Ellis Island and of a girl who immigrated in about 1910, as well as by quotes from early twentieth century immigrants and Ellis Island officials.
Author : Erica Rand
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822387428
In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie’s Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty. By pausing to reflect on what is and is not on display at these two iconic national monuments, Rand focuses attention on whose heritage is honored and whose obscured. She also reveals the shifting connections between sex, money, material products, and ideas of the nation in everything from the ostensible father-mother-child configuration on an Ellis Island golf ball purchased at the gift shop to the multi-million dollar July 4, 1986 Liberty Weekend extravaganza celebrating the Statue’s centennial just days after the Supreme Court’s un-Libertylike decision upholding the antisodomy laws challenged in Bowers v. Hardwick. Rand notes that portrayals of the Statue of Liberty as a beacon for immigrants tend to suppress the Statue’s connections to people brought to this country by force. She examines what happened to migrants at Ellis Island whose bodies did not match the gender suggested by the clothing they wore. In light of contemporary ideas about safety and security, she examines the “Decide an Immigrant’s Fate” program, which has visitors to Ellis Island act as a 1910 board of inspectors hearing the appeal of an immigrant about to be excluded from the country. Rand is a witty, insightful, and open-minded tour guide, able to synthesize numerous diverse ideas—about tourism, immigration history, sexuality, race, ethnicity, commodity culture, and global capitalism—and to candidly convey her delight in her Ellis Island snow globe. And pen. And lighter. And back scratcher. And golf ball. And glittery pink key chain.
Author : Cyndi Howells
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0806316780
A two volume set which provides researchers with more than 70,000 links to every conceivable genealogical resource on the Internet.
Author : Russell M. Lawson,Benjamin A. Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1972 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216134985
Divided into four volumes, Race and Ethnicity in America provides a complete overview of the history of racial and ethnic relations in America, from pre-contact to the present. The five hundred years since Europeans made contact with the indigenous peoples of America have been dominated by racial and ethnic tensions. During the colonial period, from 1500 to 1776, slavery and servitude of whites, blacks, and Indians formed the foundation for race and ethnic relations. After the American Revolution, slavery, labor inequalities, and immigration led to racial and ethnic tensions; after the Civil War, labor inequalities, immigration, and the fight for civil rights dominated America's racial and ethnic experience. From the 1960s to the present, the unfulfilled promise of civil rights for all ethnic and racial groups in America has been the most important sociopolitical issue in America. Race and Ethnicity in America tells this story of the fight for equality in America. The first volume spans pre-contact to the American Revolution; the second, the American Revolution to the Civil War; the third, Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement; and the fourth, the Civil Rights Movement to the present. All volumes explore the culture, society, labor, war and politics, and cultural expressions of racial and ethnic groups.
Author : Robert L. Fleegler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208092
Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," built by people who came from many lands to make an even better nation. But this belief was relatively new in the twentieth century, a period that saw the establishment of immigrant quotas that endured until the Immigrant and Nationality Act of 1965. What changed over the course of the century, according to historian Robert L. Fleegler, is the rise of "contributionism," the belief that the newcomers from eastern and southern Europe contributed important cultural and economic benefits to American society. Early twentieth-century immigrants from southern and eastern Europe often found themselves criticized for language and customs at odds with their new culture, but initially found greater acceptance through an emphasis on their similarities to "native stock" Americans. Drawing on sources as diverse as World War II films, records of Senate subcommittee hearings, and anti-Communist propaganda, Ellis Island Nation describes how contributionism eventually shifted the focus of the immigration debate from assimilation to a Cold War celebration of ethnic diversity and its benefits—helping to ease the passage of 1960s immigration laws that expanded the pool of legal immigrants and setting the stage for the identity politics of the 1970s and 1980s. Ellis Island Nation provides a historical perspective on recent discussions of multiculturalism and the exclusion of groups that have arrived since the liberalization of immigrant laws.
Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216105596
The entire Italian American experience—from America's earliest days through the present—is now available in a single volume. This wide-ranging work relates the entire saga of the Italian-American experience from immigration through assimilation to achievement. The book highlights the enormous contributions that Italian Americans—the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States—have made to the professions, politics, academy, arts, and popular culture of America. Going beyond familiar names and stories, it also captures the essence of everyday life for Italian Americans as they established communities and interacted with other ethnic groups. In this single volume, readers will be able to explore why Italians came to America, where they settled, and how their distinctive identity was formed. A diverse array of entries that highlight the breadth of this experience, as well as the multitude of ways in which Italian Americans have influenced U.S. history and culture, are presented in five thematic sections. Featured primary documents range from a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus announcing his discovery to excerpts from President Barack Obama's 2011 speech to the National Italian American Foundation. Readers will come away from this book with a broader understanding of and greater appreciation for Italian Americans' contributions to the United States.
