Immigration Books and the Immigrant Experience
Immigration Books and the Immigrant Experience brings together historical books, studies, guides, memoir-style accounts, and illustrated works that document the immigrant journey to the United States. The selections cover major themes in American immigration history, including European migration, Ellis Island, citizenship, settlement in the Midwest, Progressive Era reform, ethnic identity, family history, and the social challenges faced by newcomers.
These books help explain why immigrants left their homelands, how they traveled, what they encountered upon arrival, and how they contributed to American communities, labor, culture, agriculture, industry, religion, and civic life. The collection includes both period works written during the great immigration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and later historical studies that interpret the immigrant experience for modern readers.
Together, these titles offer students, educators, genealogists, and family historians a valuable pathway into the personal, social, and national story of immigration in America.
Aliens or Americans? is a highly influential 1906 sociological and religious textbook written by Howard B. Grose, featuring an introduction by prominent Social Gospel leader Josiah Strong.
It is the story of why and how each came to this country, the hardships and prejudices they had to overcome after their arrival, and their major contributions to the rich diversity and enormous vitality of our country and our culture.
In this new edition, Jones brings his history of immigration to the United States up to 1990. His new chapter covers the major changes in immigration patterns caused by changes in legislation, such as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
A lifelong concern of President Kennedy's was immigration reform....This landmark essay, written while he was President, discusses the ideas ultimately put into practice with the Immigration Bill of 1965, for which President Johnson gave him full credit.
Roger Daniels' Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life is a comprehensive social history that explores how diverse waves of immigrants have shaped U.S. demographics and culture since the year 1500.
Destination America tells the story of the greatest mass migration in history. It describes what it meant to disrupt one's life and travel to an unknown future in an unknown land.
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.
An original book with stunning images by Carol Highsmith, photographer of the Photographic Tour and Pictorial Souvenir series, as well as fascinating black and white archival photographs, about
Illustrated with over 200 photographs, many never before published, Gateway to Liberty details the history of two great American landmarks-the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
The Guide to Minnesota for Immigrants is a 1911 promotional handbook compiled by the reconstituted Minnesota State Board of Immigration. Published in St. Paul to commemorate Minnesota's 52nd anniversary of statehood (granted in 1858).
Written as a practical manual for early 20th-century immigrants, the book details the historical legal processes required to obtain United States citizenship during that era.
William P. Shriver's 1913 book, Immigrant Forces: Factors in the New Democracy, reflects the core tensions, anxieties, and reform movements of the Progressive Era (1890–1920).
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, millions of European immigrants took these words to heart as they arrived at Ellis Island, hoping to build a better life for their children and for future generations.
The 1870 campaign by the Iowa Board of Immigration triggered a massive influx of Northern and Western European settlers, fundamentally reshaping Iowa's cultural landscape and fueling a historic population boom.
This is THE book to find if you are searching for the genealogy of Norwegians who immigrated to America between the 1800s and 1913: Martin Ulvestad's 'Nordmædene I Amerika' (Norwegians in America).
Dedicated to New York Commissioner of Immigration Robert Watchorn, the text is a foundational piece of Progressive Era social literature that chronicles the journey of "New Immigration" populations from their native European villages to their integration into American society.
Strangers at the Door is an epic drama—told in poignant words and pictures—of one of the most vital and dramatic sagas in America's history. A deeply moving and provocative portrait of the foundation of our nation—its people.
The Immigrant Tide: Its Ebb and Flow is a significant historical and sociological work published in 1909 by Edward Alfred Steiner, an Austrian-born Jewish immigrant who became a sociology professor at Grinnell College.
The text is uniquely elevated by illustrations from Joseph Stella, a famous Italian immigrant and Futurist painter.
The purpose of this book is not only to tell what happened to Ludvig Kristian Gjønvik, but to show how history can be recovered from documents that might otherwise appear ordinary.
Repository Information
The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives (GG Archives) is cataloged with the Library of Congress under MARC Org Code: WiMfGGA and ISIL: US-wimfgga.
Current location:
N91W16562 Pershing Ave, #1
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin 53051-2170, USA
Note: Historic addresses listed in earlier MARC records include Marietta, GA and Woodstock, GA. These appear in authority files but are no longer active.
