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Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) History Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations Immigrants Immigrants United States Biography Immigrants United States History Immigrants United States History Juvenile literature United States United States Emigration and immigration History United States Emigration and immigration History Juvenile literatureMortensen, Lori
Summary: Describes Angel Island Immigration Station and why it is a symbol of hope and struggle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MORForest, Christopher
Summary: "In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of immigration through Ellis Island. Interesting photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about this important part of American history. An infographic enhances understanding of immigration through Ellis Island, and What Do You Think? sidebars encourage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pogo books are published by Jump! 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 304.8 FORFreedman, Russell
Summary: A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J979.4 FREDemuth, Patricia
Summary: Describes the history of Ellis Island, a gateway for many immigrants coming to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and details the restoration of the landmark and its reopening as a museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHA BASKETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What DemuthPeters, Lisa Westberg
Summary: "This lyrical and extremely timely picture book illuminates the many different migrants who have made their homes in North America through the centuries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 304.8 PETDollarhide, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Quest Genealogical Service 1997
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 973.0421 DOLTifft, Wilton S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 325.1 TIFHendricks, Charles H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hendricks Family Press 1995
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.348 HDeParle, Jason
Summary: "When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas in the Manila slums thirty years ago, he didn't expect to make a lifelong friend. Nor did he expect to spend decades reporting on her family--husband, children, and siblings--as they came to embody the stunning rise of global migration. In A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family across three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.899 DEPColdham, Peter Wilson.
Contents: [v. 1]. 1607-1660 -- [v. 2]. 1661-1699.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1987
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.373 ColdhDas, Alina
Summary: This provocative account of our immigration system's long, racist history reveals how it has become the brutal machine that upends the lives of millions of immigrants today. Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and deported, trapped in what leading immigrant rights activist and lawyer Alina Das calls the "deportation machine." The bulk of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325 DASLee, Erika.
Summary: "The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LEEBerlin, Ira
Summary: Four great migrations frame the history of people of African descent in America, setting the paths by which Africans and then African Americans made and remade black life between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Those four massive upheavals form the foundation of Ira Berlin's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 BERCannato, Vincent J.
Summary: Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today it stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday--from 1892 to 1924--coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 325.73 CANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 CANSummary: Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie Entertainment 1997
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OUTČulen, Konštantín.
Summary: "Konštantin Culen was the first Slovak writer to undertake systematic research in the history of the American Slovaks, and the first to write a part of that history. He prepared many rich chapters on the history of parishes, movements, organizations, societies...Culen was the first to bring about a rapprochement between Slovak America and the land of its origins. And had he accomplished nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0049 CULMaestro, Betsy.
Summary: Presents the story of immigration. Includes important dates and facts about immigration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 325.73 MAECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America MaestroHandlin, Oscar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 HandlCoan, Peter M.
Summary: From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island processed 12 million immigrants. Produced in cooperation with the Ellis Island Research Foundation, "Ellis Island Interviews" collects the oral histories of more than 130 men and women from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. The stories of these last original surviving immigrants are enhanced by more than 60 photographs, many never before published.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 304.8 COACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.873 COASiler, Julia Flynn
Summary: "A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 SILNovi, Sara
Summary: "Stories of remarkable American immigrants are brought to life in short, lyrical biographies written by Sara Novi and charming full-color illustrations by artist Alison Kolesar. Some of the names you'll find here are familiar: Founding father Alexander Hamilton was born and raised on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis before coming to New York to pursue his education, and Yoko Ono's parents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 NOVDaniels, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 DANFord, Jeanne Marie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Indian immigrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019