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Author : Randolph G. Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312249751
Author : Randolph Greenfield Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : America
ISBN : OCLC:166614130
Author : Meredith Oda
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226592749
In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the “Gateway to the Pacific,” using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco’s relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city’s African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco’s story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.
Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634402422
For millions of people, leaving home and coming to America meant giving up family and all things familiar. For more than sixty years, one site was the first place in America all new immigrants saw. Find out why Ellis Island holds such an important place in America's history.
Author : Mark Jarrett,Robert Yahng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997683554
Author : Tracy Campbell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300169492
DIVThe surprising history of the spectacular Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the competing agendas of its supporters, and the mixed results of their ambitious plan/div
Author : Sarah Miller-Davenport
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691217352
How Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth century Gateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Hawai'i statehood in 1959 was a watershed moment, not only in the ways Americans defined their nation’s role on the international stage but also in the ways they understood the problems of social difference at home. Hawai'i’s remarkable transition from territory to state heralded the emergence of postwar multiculturalism, which was a response both to independence movements abroad and to the limits of civil rights in the United States. Once a racially problematic overseas colony, by the 1960s, Hawai'i had come to symbolize John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. This was a more inclusive idea of who counted as American at home and what areas of the world were considered to be within the U.S. sphere of influence. Statehood advocates argued that Hawai'i and its majority Asian population could serve as a bridge to Cold War Asia—and as a global showcase of American democracy and racial harmony. In the aftermath of statehood, business leaders and policymakers worked to institutionalize and sell this ideal by capitalizing on Hawai'i’s diversity. Asian Americans in Hawai'i never lost a perceived connection to Asia. Instead, their ethnic difference became a marketable resource to help other Americans navigate a decolonizing world. As excitement over statehood dimmed, the utopian vision of Hawai'i fell apart, revealing how racial inequality and U.S. imperialism continued to shape the fiftieth state—and igniting a backlash against the islands’ white-dominated institutions.
Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393244380
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.
Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher : Chicago : Quadrangle Books, 1963 [c1962]
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Historiography
ISBN : IND:30000007645488
Revised ed. Includes bibliography.
Author : David Maldwyn Ellis,Sherri Goldstein Cash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1892724596
As the gateway to the New World, New York state boast many firsts. Travel on a colorful journey through this exciting and impressive state; explore its natural and architectural beauty while meeting the innovators, politicians, educators, and poets who come to life. The history is traced from the first colonial settlers and Native Americans, the Revolutionary period to the United Nations, 9/11, and New York's significant place in the world of today. Its economic, ethnic, political, and religious diversity and challenges are showcased.
Author : Gordon Bishop
Publisher : Plexus Publishing (NJ)
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : WISC:89066229287
Written in a passionate and readable style, Gateway To America chronicles the historic New York/New Jersey triangle that was the window for America's immigration wave in the 19th and 20th centuries that also inspired some of our countries most popular tourism sites. Thus, unlike other guide books that cover Gateway landmarks, this book is the first comprehensive one to cover all the sites from a historical point of view, including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Liberty State Park, Battery Park, World Trade Center, South Street Seaport and Governor's Island that make up the entire Gateway experience. Included is all the particular tourist information that one would want to know about each site. This book is based on the 1995 PBS documentary of the same name.
Author : Pamela Reeves,Pamela Kilian
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0517059053
Celebrates the grand reopening of one of America's greatest historical monuments by exploring the history of Ellis Island, from the days of its earliest immigrants to its recent restoration
Author : Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439902158
How the interests of Seattle and Japanese Americans were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II.
Author : Mark Jarrett,Robert Yahng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989484572
Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Illinois
ISBN : 193167227X
Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, c1983. (The winning of America series)