Ellis Island and the Peopling of America
Author | : Virginia Yans-McLaughlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Immigrants |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Virginia Yans-McLaughlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Immigrants |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Claude Chapdelaine |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2012-09-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1603447903 |
The Far Northeast, a peninsula incorporating the six New England states, New York east of the Hudson, Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Maritime Provinces, provided the setting for a distinct chapter in the peopling of North America. Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast focuses on the Clovis pioneers and their eastward migration into this region, inhospitable before 13,500 years ago, especially in its northern latitudes. Bringing together the last decade or so of research on the Paleoindian presence in the area, Claude Chapdelaine and the contributors to this volume discuss, among other topics, the style variations in the fluted points left behind by these migrating peoples, a broader disparity than previously thought. This book offers not only an opportunity to review new data and interpretations in most areas of the Far Northeast, including a first glimpse at the Cliche-Rancourt Site, the only known fluted point site in Quebec, but also permits these new findings to shape revised interpretations of old sites. The accumulation of research findings in the Far Northeast has been steady, and this timely book presents some of the most interesting results, offering fresh perspectives on the prehistory of this important region.
Author | : Roger Daniels |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2002-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 006050577X |
With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present.
Author | : John S. Berman |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780760738887 |
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 | : James Marten |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1479894141 |
In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation’s top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. Edited by renowned scholar of children’s history James Marten, the collection of eleven essays offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the essays in this volume foreground the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control them.
Author | : John E. Bodnar |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1987-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253204165 |
"... an excellent broad overview... " --Journal of Social History "... powerfully argued... " --Moses Rischin "... imaginative and soundly based... " --Choice "Highly recommended... " --Library Journal "... an outstanding major contribution to the literature on immigration history." --History "... a very important new synthesis of American immigration history... " --Journal of American Ethnic History "... a state of the art discussion, impressively encyclopaedic... The Transplanted is a tour de force, and a fitting summation to Bodnar's own prolific, creative, and insightful writings on immigrants." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History A major survey of the immigrant experience between 1830 and 1930, this book has implications for all students and scholars of American social history.
Author | : Caitlin Merrick |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499435061 |
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 | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stuart A. Kallen |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2007-07-27 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1590181867 |
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.