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Forgotten Ellis Island

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Author : Lorie Conway
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-10-05

Forgotten Ellis Island written by Lorie Conway and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with History categories.

A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world's greatest public hospitals was built. Massive and modern, the hospital's twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America's first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged. The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding—a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed entry to America. Those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported. Three short decades after it opened, the Ellis Island hospital was all but abandoned. As America after World War I began shutting its border to all but a favored few, the hospital fell into disuse and decay, its medical wards left open only to the salt air of the New York Harbor. With many never-before-published photographs and compelling, sometimes heartbreaking stories of patients (a few of whom are still alive today) and medical staff, Forgotten Ellis Island is the first book about this extraordinary institution. It is a powerful tribute to the best and worst of America's dealings with its new citizens-to-be.

Forgotten Ellis Island

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Author : Lorie Conway
language : en
Publisher: Collins
Release Date : 2009-02-01

Forgotten Ellis Island written by Lorie Conway and has been published by Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-01 with History categories.

A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the worlds greatest public hospitals was built. Forgotten Ellis Island--the first book about this extraordinary institution--is a powerful tribute to the best and worst of Americas dealings with its new citizens-to-be. 150 photos. 8 page color insert.

Inside Smithsonian Research

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

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Immigration Problems

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Author : Victor Safford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925

Immigration Problems written by Victor Safford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Emigration and immigration law categories.

Dorot

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Dorot written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Genealogy categories.

The New England Journal Of Medicine

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

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Encyclopedia Of American Immigration

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Author : Carl Leon Bankston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

Encyclopedia Of American Immigration written by Carl Leon Bankston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Immigrants categories.

This three-volume set covers the full breadth of American immigration history in 525 alphabetically arranged and easy-to-understand articles. Designed and written to be understood by high school students and college undergraduates Encyclopedia of American Immigration offers a clear and innovative approach to immigration history that can also be used by advanced students and scholars. The goal of the set is to address all questions about immigration that students might reasonably be expected to ask: Where immigrants have come from and why; how they have adapted to their new homeland; how they have contributed to American culture and society; how government policies toward them have changed; and how American immigration history has fit into worldwide migration patterns. - Publisher.

Encountering Ellis Island

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Author : Ronald H. Bayor
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15

Encountering Ellis Island written by Ronald H. Bayor and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with History categories.

A look at the process of entering America a hundred years ago—from both an institutional and a human perspective. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892–1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal government and systematizing the entry process. Encountering Ellis Island introduces readers to the ways in which the principal nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American portal for Europeans worked in practice, with some comparison to Angel Island, the main entry point for Asian immigrants. 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 process. In reality, Ellis Island had many liabilities as well as assets. Corruption was rife. Immigrants with medical issues occasionally faced a hostile staff. Some families, on the other hand, reunited in great joy and found relief at their journey's end. Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life.

Oah Annual Meeting

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Author : Organization of American Historians. Meeting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

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Annual State Conference

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932

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