Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders

Author: Dorothee Schneider

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0674047567

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Dorothee Schneider relates the story of immigrants’ passage from an old society to a new one, and American policymakers’ debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the histories of Europeans, Asians, and Mexicans, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant expectations and government responses.


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.


Nursing History Review, Volume 29

Nursing History Review, Volume 29

Author: Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0826166369

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Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles as well as reviews of the latest media publications on nursing and healthcare history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find Nursing History Review an important resource. The 29th volume of the review features a new section, "Hidden in Plain Sight", dedicated to highlighting nurses from underrepresented groups. Included in Volume 29: Rethinking the Tulsa Race Riot The Nurses of Ellis Island: Caring for the Huddled Masses Different Stories, Similar Results: Urban and Rural Nursing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century The Nursing of the All Saints Sisters Those of Little Note: Enslaved Plantation “Sick Nurses”


American Immigration: English

American Immigration: English

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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An alphabetical reference work examining the background, statistics, reception, and current status of those groups who have immigrated to America throughout history.


Emigration from Scotland Between the Wars

Emigration from Scotland Between the Wars

Author: Marjory Harper

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780719049279

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Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left?Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora. After an opening section where the author sets the Scottish experience within the context of the rest of the British Isles, the book then divides the country geographically, starting with the Highlands, then coastal Scotland, and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas. Harper then discusses the organised religious and political movements that encouraged emigration. By interweaving personal stories with statistical evidence Harper brings to life the reality behind the dramatic historical migration.


American Immigration

American Immigration

Author: Grolier Educational Corporation

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780717292837

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An alphabetical reference work examining the background, statistics, reception, and current status of those groups who have immigrated to America throughout history.


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.


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.