Arriving at Ellis Island
Author | : Dale Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836853377 |
- Time line- Focus boxes- Maps- Primary source documents- Glossary, Index
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Author | : Dale Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836853377 |
- Time line- Focus boxes- Maps- Primary source documents- Glossary, Index
Author | : Ronald H. Bayor |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421413698 |
A look at the process of entering America a hundred years ago—from both an institutional and a human perspective. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892–1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal government and systematizing the entry process. Encountering Ellis Island introduces readers to the ways in which the principal nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American portal for Europeans worked in practice, with some comparison to Angel Island, the main entry point for Asian immigrants. What happened along the journey? How did the processing of so many people work? What were the reactions of the newly arrived to the process (and threats) of inspection, delays, hospitalization, detention, and deportation? How did immigration officials attempt to protect the country from diseased or “unfit” newcomers, and how did these definitions take shape and change? What happened to people who failed screening? And how, at the journey's end, did immigrants respond to admission to their new homeland? Ronald H. Bayor, a senior scholar in immigrant and urban studies, gives voice to both immigrants and Island workers to offer perspectives on the human experience and institutional imperatives associated with the arrival experience. Drawing on firsthand accounts from, and interviews with, immigrants, doctors, inspectors, aid workers, and interpreters, Bayor paints a vivid and sometimes troubling portrait of the immigration process. In reality, Ellis Island had many liabilities as well as assets. Corruption was rife. Immigrants with medical issues occasionally faced a hostile staff. Some families, on the other hand, reunited in great joy and found relief at their journey's end. Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life.
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 | : Ivan Chermayeff |
Publisher | : New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Ellis Island is the port through which nearly half of the Europeans who emigrated to America passed. This book features the museum's highlights and a brief history of the immigrant experience.
Author | : Tamara L. Britton |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1616139544 |
Explores the history of Ellis Island, which housed the United States' most important immigration processing center from 1892 through 1943, serving seventeen million immigrants.
Author | : Patricia Brennan Demuth |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 044847915X |
From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not restored until the 1980s, when Americans from all over the country donated more than $150 million. It opened to the public once again in 1990 as a museum. Learn more about America's history, and perhaps even your own, through the story of one of the most popular landmarks in the country.
Author | : Rachael Hanel |
Publisher | : Capstone Press |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2020-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1496666275 |
"The artifacts of Ellis Island tell the story of millions of immigrants who passed through its halls on their journey to a new life in the United States. A 1900 photograph of the Statue of Liberty, an antique stethoscope, and a jigsaw puzzle are some of the primary sources that can help students better understand the experience of journeying through Ellis Island in the early 1900s. Explore these and more in this Time Capsule History book!"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Terry Allan Hicks |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761421344 |
"An exploration of the island that served as a gateway to thousands of immigrants and that has since become an important American symbol"--Provided by publisher.
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.