Encountering Ellis Island
Encountering Ellis Island

Author: Ronald H. Bayor

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2014-05-15

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1421413671

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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 procedure.

Ellis Island Interviews
Ellis Island Interviews

Author: Peter M. Coan

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9780760753095

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Contains transcripts of interviews with over one hundred of the last surviving immigrants who came through Ellis Island to America, and includes conversations with six employees of the island in which they discuss their duties and experiences.

Indianapolis
Indianapolis

Author: M. Teresa Baer

Publisher: Indiana Historical Society

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 0871952998

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The booklet opens with the Delaware Indians prior to 1818. White Americans quickly replaced the natives. Germanic people arrived during the mid-nineteenth century. African American indentured servants and free blacks migrated to Indianapolis. After the Civil War, southern blacks poured into the city. Fleeing war and political unrest, thousands of eastern and southern Europeans came to Indianapolis. Anti-immigration laws slowed immigration until World War II. Afterward, the city welcomed students and professionals from Asia and the Middle East and refugees from war-torn countries such as Vietnam and poor countries such as Mexico. Today, immigrants make Indianapolis more diverse and culturally rich than ever before.

Pentagon 9/11
Pentagon 9/11

Author: Alfred Goldberg

Publisher: Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi

Published: 2007-09-05

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.

The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present
The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present

Author: Clarence R. Geier

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-02-10

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781541023482

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The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.

Independence
Independence

Author: Constance M. Greiff

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780812280470

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Carefully researched and fully documented, Independence chronicles the history of the "cradle of liberty" that is Independence National Historical Park, the historical site most closely connected with the nation's founding. Constance M. Greiff illustrates how the park was shaped by national events and conditions in Philadelphia, change and growth within the National Park Service, and the interpersonal and political struggles among the key people involved in the park's development. She traces the process by which the participants arrived at the ideas underpinning the park's creation and development, conflicting views about the purpose and scope of the park, and the resolution of those conflicts.

With Poor Immigrants to America
With Poor Immigrants to America

Author: Stephen Graham

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1429005629

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An Englishman tries to experience the immigration process the way the poor of Russia and Europe do, traveling from NYC to Chicago (often on foot).

Operation Dragon Comeback
Operation Dragon Comeback

Author: Bruce A. Ashcroft

Publisher: Department of the Air Force

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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Tells the story of the men and woman of Air Education and Training Command (AETC) who rushed to the aid of their wingmen at Kessler Air Force Base and to their countrymen in need.