Download or read book Ellis Island and Beyond written by Armin Langsten and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LET THIS BE MY WAY OF SAYING "THANK YOU" to all of those that have touched my life in one way or another and have helped to make this book become reality. The fact that America became my home was unintentionally. My dreams had been to come to this part of the world for a year or two and return to my beloved homeland. My Germany. Especially Luebeck. That land had lost a war that should have never come about. That land had been destroyed to the very core. The continuous unemployment and horrible outlook into a better future made me come to America. My wonderful German girl, Gisela, came here from Berlin three years later to be my wife. Two wonderful children, a boy and a girl were born. We worked seven days a week to get the things we had hoped for. I started to love America for all there was to be had. We moved about for a long time and finally settled in New Hampshire. That State had all we wanted. We could sail and we could ski, we could see the ocean or hike in the woods. It was there for us to have and enjoy and we were happy to raise our two children there as well. With this "Thank you" note I hope that all my readers will see a sense of humor on my part and smile or laugh a little. Yes, I have built a few houses and sold a few as well. And yes, my machine-shop became a success but even there I couldn't stop. A Sailboat-marina was the final! Sailing the coast of Maine and the Virgin Islands was the high point. And yes, I was on the helm, but my wife was the better Navigator. We had made it! Again, to all my family, to all my friends and especially the wonderful lady I married, Gisela, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Download or read book Ellis Island and Beyond written by Wendy S. Wilson and published by Walch Education. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrates civics, geography, archaeology, environmental studies, language arts, and math Allows students to research local history, immigration, cultural diversity, and family histories Includes glossary, bibliography, and answers
Download or read book Teaching about Immigration written by Lawrence D Hogan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island written by Ellen Levine and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If You... series.
Download or read book Beyond Cannery Row written by Carol Lynn McKibben and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006-01-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a nuanced story of women, migration, community, industry, and civic life at the turn of the twentieth century, Carol Lynn McKibben's Beyond Cannery Row analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in Western Sicily to Monterey, California--and sometimes back again. McKibben's analysis of gender and gender roles shows that it was the women in this community who had the insight, the power, and the purpose to respond and even prosper amid changing economic conditions. Vividly evoking the immigrants' everyday experiences through first-person accounts and detailed description, McKibben demonstrates that the cannery work done by Sicilian immigrant women was crucial in terms of the identity formation and community development. These changes allowed their families to survive the challenges of political conflicts over citizenship in World War II and intermarriage with outsiders throughout the migration experience. The women formed voluntary associations and celebrated festas that effectively linked them with each other and with their home villages in Sicily. Continuous migration created a strong sense of transnationalism among Sicilians in Monterey, which has enabled them to continue as a viable ethnic community today.
Download or read book Teaching about Immigration written by Michael Parrella and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ellis Island written by Raymond Bial and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hope and Tears written by Gwenyth Swain and published by Calkins Creek Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about the immigration station in New York harbor, along with fictionalized accounts of the people who came through or worked there.
Download or read book Journey to Ellis Island written by Carol Bierman and published by . This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatic true story--told by the daughter of Russian immigrant Jehuda Weinstein--reveals the joys, fears, and eventual triumph of a family who realizes its dream. Full color.
Download or read book What Was Ellis Island written by Patricia Brennan Demuth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Ellis Island written by Ellen Doherty and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the history of Ellis Island and the experience of immigrating to America.
Download or read book Beyond Ellis Island written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story touches on the lives of the Czech immigrants who came to America at the turn of the century. They saw no limits to their dreams.
Download or read book Ellis Island written by Patricia Ryon Quiri and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.
Download or read book Ellis Island to Ebbets Field written by Peter Levine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ellis Island to Ebbets Field, Peter Levine vividly recounts the stories of Red Auerbach, Hank Greenberg, Moe Berg, Sid Luckman, Nat Holman, Benny Leonard, Barney Ross, Marty Glickman, and a host of others who became Jewish heroes and symbols of the difficult struggle for American success. From settlement houses and street corners, to Madison Square and Fenway Park, their experiences recall a time when Jewish males dominated sports like boxing and basketball, helping to smash stereotypes about Jewish weakness while instilling American Jews with a fierce pride in their strength and ability in the face of Nazi aggression, domestic anti-Semitism, and economic depression. Full of marvelous stories, anecdotes, and personalities, Ellis Island to Ebbets Field enhances our understanding of the Jewish-American experience as well as the struggles of other American minority groups.
Download or read book Working Toward Whiteness written by David R. Roediger and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white? David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-were once viewed as undesirables by the WASP establishment in the United States. They eventually became part of white America, through the nascent labor movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. Once assimilated as fully white, many of them adopted the racism of those whites who formerly looked down on them as inferior. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants-the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods-Roediger explores the mechanisms by which immigrants came to enjoy the privileges of being white in America. A disturbing, necessary, masterful history, Working Toward Whiteness uses the past to illuminate the present. In an Introduction to the 2018 edition, Roediger considers the resonance of the book in the age of Trump, showing how Working Toward Whiteness remains as relevant as ever even though most migrants today are not from Europe.
Download or read book The Last Days of Ellis Island written by Gaëlle Josse and published by World Editions. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York, November 3, 1954: The last immigration officer of Ellis Island looks back at 45 years as gatekeeper to America.
Download or read book Beyond Ellis Island written by Joel Najar and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
