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Photographs, illustrations, and text show what it was like for people to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States.Tags
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This book primarily chronicles European immigration to the United States through Ellis Island. Chock full of images - photos and illustrations -- the accompanying text blurbs retell the great American tale of how so many white-complexioned immigrants made it to the American shores in search of greater opportunity and a better life. It does not say much about persons of color until late in the text, and hardly references Asian immigration in the 19th century. Nice for the coffee table, it best serves the crowd which maintains the propaganda that America was built by hardworking Europeans lured by the Great American Dream.
Good for history lessons, as well as heritage projects. Could be part of a text set or stand alone recommendation.
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Martin W. Sandler is the author of Lincoln Through the Lens and The Dust Bowl Through the Lens. He has won five Emmy Awards for his writing for television and is the author of more than sixty books, two of which have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Among Sandler's other books are the six volumes in his award-winning Library of Congress show more American History Series for Young People, a series which has sold more than 500,000 copies. Other books by Mr. Sandler include: Island of Hope: The Story of Ellis Island, Trapped in Ice, The Story of American Photography, The Vaqueros, America: A Celebration, and This Was America. Martin Sandler has taught American history and American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College. In 2014 his title, Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Immigrants
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- Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 304.8 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Factors affecting social behavior Movement of people
- LCC
- JV6450 .S25 — Political Science Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration Colonies and colonization. Emigration and Emigration and immigration. International United States
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- English
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