Life At Ellis Island
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Author | : Sally Senzell Isaacs |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2001-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781588104175 |
Describes Ellis Island were millions of people stopped before entering the United States, how and why they came, how they were checked when they got there, and what it was like to live there.
Author | : Louise Peacock |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2007-05-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0689830262 |
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 | : Malgorzata Szejnert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781925849035 |
A landmark work of history that brings the voices of the past vividly to life, transforming our understanding of the immigrant's experience in America. Ellis Island. How many stories does this tiny patch of land hold? How many people had joyfully embarked on a new life here -- or known the despair of being turned away? How many were held there against their will? To tell its manifold stories, Ellis Islanddraws on unpublished testimonies, memoirs and correspondence from many internees and immigrants, including Russians, Italians, Jews, Japanese, Germans, and Poles, along with the commissioners, interpreters, doctors, and nurses who shepherded them -- all of whom knew they were taking part in a significant historical phenomenon. We see that deportations from Ellis Island were often based on pseudo-scientific ideas about race, gender, and disability. Sometimes, families were broken up, and new arrivals were held in detention at the Island for days, weeks, or months under quarantine. Indeed the island compound has spent longer as an internment camp than as a migration station. Today, the island is no less political. In popular culture, it is a romantic symbol of the generations of immigrants who reshaped the United States. But its true history reveals that today's fierce immigration debate has deep roots. Now a master storyteller brings its past to life, illustrated with unique archival photographs.
Author | : Michael Burgan |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1476502536 |
You choose which path you would take if you were an immigrant arriving at Ellis Island.
Author | : Ivan Chermayeff |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Explores the immigrant's experiences and their pilgrimage of hope.
Author | : Peter Morton Coan |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1616143959 |
This book offers a balanced, poignant, and often moving portrait of America’s immigrants over more than a century. The author has organized the book by decades so that readers can easily find the time period most relevant to their experience or that of family members. The first part covers the Ellis Island era, the second part America’s new immigrants—from the closing of Ellis Island in 1955 to the present. Also included is a comprehensive appendix of statistics showing immigration by country and decade from 1890 to the present, a complete list of famous immigrants, and much more. This rewarding, engrossing volume documents the diverse mosaic of America in the words of the people from many lands, who for more than a century have made our country what it is today. It distills the larger, hot-topic issue of national immigration down to the personal level of the lives of those who actually lived it.
Author | : Vincent J. Cannato |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2009-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0060742739 |
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation's preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.
Author | : Raymond Bial |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618999439 |
The story of the island where the immigrants went when they came to America looking for a better way of life and the museum that preserves these memories.
Author | : John T. Cunningham |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780738524283 |
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 | : Susan Cotts Watkins |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1994-04-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781610445511 |
After Ellis Island is an unprecedented study of America's foreign-born population at a critical juncture in immigration history. The new century had witnessed a tremendous surge in European immigration, and by 1910 immigrants and their children numbered nearly one third of the U.S. population. The census of that year drew from these newcomers a particularly rich trove of descriptive information, one from which the contributors to After Ellis Island draw to create an unmatched profile of American society in transition. Chapters written especially for this volume explore many aspects of the immigrants' lives, such as where they settled, the jobs they held, how long they remained in school, and whether or not they learned to speak English. More than a demographic catalog, After Ellis Island employs a wide range of comparisons among ethnic groups to probe whether differences in childbirth, child mortality, and education could be traced to cultural or environmental causes. Did differences in schooling levels diminish among groups in the same social and economic circumstances, or did they persist along ethnic lines? Did absorption into mainstream America—measured through duration of U.S. residence, neighborhood mingling, and ability to speak English—blur ethnic differences and increase chances for success? After Ellis Island also shows how immigrants eased the nation's transition from agriculture to manufacturing by providing essential industrial laborers. After Ellis Island offers a major assessment of ethnic diversity in early twentieth century American society. The questions it addresses about assimilation and employment among immigrants in 1910 acquire even greater significance as we observe a renewed surge of foreign arrivals. This volume will be valuable to sociologists and historians of immigration, to demographers and economists, and to all those interested in the relationship of ethnicity to opportunity.