Encyclopedia of Ellis Island
Encyclopedia of Ellis Island

Author: Barry Moreno

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2004-12-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313326827

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Ellis Island, at the southern tip of Manhattan, was the major portal for European immigrants to the United States and looms large in 19th century and early 20th century history. After extensive restoration, today it is a national symbol and important museum. Authored by a noted historian and librarian at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, this is the first encyclopedia devoted to the Island, documenting its various incarnations. It contains more than 430 essay entries on the crucial people, operations, rooms and buildings, events, immigration laws and acts, organizations, and other terms associated with the island's history. This ready reference is perfect for synthesizing information for student reports on immigration and heritage. Genealogists and browsers will find this captivating reading as well. A chronology, primary document appendixes, and plentiful photos are added value.

Encyclopedia of Ellis Island
Encyclopedia of Ellis Island

Author: Barry Moreno

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2004-12-30

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Ellis Island, at the southern tip of Manhattan, was the major portal for European immigrants to the United States and looms large in 19th century and early 20th century history. After extensive restoration, today it is a national symbol and important museum. Authored by a noted historian and librarian at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, this is the first encyclopedia devoted to the Island, documenting its various incarnations. It contains more than 430 essay entries on the crucial people, operations, rooms and buildings, events, immigration laws and acts, organizations, and other terms associated with the island's history. This ready reference is perfect for synthesizing information for student reports on immigration and heritage. Genealogists and browsers will find this captivating reading as well. A chronology, primary document appendixes, and plentiful photos are added value.

Children of Ellis Island
Children of Ellis Island

Author: Barry Moreno

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2005-11-02

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1439616426

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Burdened with bundles and baskets, a million or more immigrant children passed through the often grim halls of Ellis Island. Having left behind their homes in Europe and other parts of the world, they made the voyage to America by steamer. Some came with parents or guardians. A few came as stowaways. But however they traveled, they found themselves a part of one of the grandest waves of human migration that the world has ever known. Children of Ellis Island explores this lost world and what it was like for an uprooted youngster at Americas golden door. Highlights include the experience of being a detained child at Ellis Islandthe schooling and games, the pastimes and amusements, the friendships, and the uneasiness caused by language barriers.

Ellis Island (German version)
Ellis Island (German version)

Author: Barry Moreno

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-03-13

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1439659796

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Die Vereinigten Staaten werden als eine der vordersten Flüchtlingsorte, und kein anderer Ort symbolisiert das mehr als Ellis Island. Mehr als zwölf millionen Einwanderer--von fast jeder Nationalität und Rasse--sind auf dem Weg zu neuen Erfahrungen durch Ellis Islands Hallen und Toren eingetreten. Mit einer erstaunenden Array von Fotografien aus den neunzehnten uns zwanzigsten Jahrhunderten führt Ellis Island den Leser durch die faszinierende Geschichte dieser kleinen Insel in New Yorker Hafen, von ihrer Vorgeschichte als einer des Hafens "Austerninsel" bis ihre spektakulare Jahre als Flagschiff-Station des U.S. Bureau of Immmigration (Einwanderungsbehörde) bis ihre aktuelle Verkörperung als das größte Museum des National Park Service.

Ellis Island
Ellis Island

Author: Joanne Mattern

Publisher: Red Chair Press

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1634402421

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For millions of people, leaving home and coming to America meant giving up family and all things familiar. For more than sixty years, one site was the first place in America all new immigrants saw. Find out why Ellis Island holds such an important place in America's history.

Ellis Island
Ellis Island

Author: Michael Burgan

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1476502536

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You choose which path you would take if you were an immigrant arriving at Ellis Island.

The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty

Author: Barry Moreno

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-02-27

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439659591

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The world's most famous sculpture, the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Enlightening the World, rises to a height of 305 feet from the base of her pedestal to the top of the golden flame of her torch. Conceived, designed, and originally built in France, she was unveiled on her new island home in 1886. The postcard trade, still in its infancy, embraced the icon, and Miss Liberty's commanding figure soon appeared on millions of postcards. In this book, one will see the statue from many angles--profiles, long shots, close-ups, aerials, torch views, and more.

America Classifies the Immigrants
America Classifies the Immigrants

Author: Joel Perlmann

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018-03-26

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0674425057

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Joel Perlmann traces the history of U.S. classification of immigrants, from Ellis Island to the present day, showing how slippery and contested ideas about racial, national, and ethnic difference have been. His focus ranges from the 1897 List of Races and Peoples, through changes in the civil rights era, to proposals for reform of the 2020 Census.

Ellis Island
Ellis Island

Author: Barry Moreno

Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions

Published: 2003-09

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781531608811

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The United States is considered the world's foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island. Through Ellis Island's halls and corridors more than twelve million immigrants-of nearly every nationality and race-entered the country on their way to new experiences in North America. With an astonishing array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs, Ellis Island leads the reader through the fascinating history of this small island in New York harbor from its pre-immigration days as one of the harbor's oyster islands to its spectacular years as the flagship station of the U.S. Bureau of Immigration to its current incarnation as the National Park Service's largest museum.

Famous Immigrants and Their Stories
Famous Immigrants and Their Stories

Author: Sara Howell

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1477767525

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We are a nation of immigrants. Even many of the faces we see on TV and in the news are recent immigrants. Meet these new Americans and learn their stories, whether they are athletes, musicians, artists, politicians, or businesspeople. Discover how all immigrants, along with natural-born American citizens, form a mosaic of different cultures and traditions.