Mr. Wilson's Post Civil War Books Non-Fiction
November 12, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
301.3 Wei HS
Weisberger, Bernard A. The American heritage history of the American people.
301.45 Mel HS
Meltzer, Milton. Taking root : Jewish immigrants in America. Discusses the historical reasons for the Jewish migration to America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and the accompanying problems of the journey and their adjustment here in the face of prejudice and intolerable living and working conditions.
304.8
I was dreaming to come to America : memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project. In their own words, coupled with hand-painted collage illustrations, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project.
304.8 Ash HS
Ashabranner, Brent K. Our beckoning borders : illegal immigration to America. Examines the problems connected with illegal immigration in the United States, from the perspectives of the immigrants themselves as well as from that of law enforcement officials.
304.8 Blu HS
Blumenthal, Shirley. Coming to America, immigrants from Eastern Europe. Discusses the reasons for the immigration of Eastern Europeans to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and describes the hardships, persecutions, and intolerable living and working conditions that many had to endure until they gained some measure of acceptance in their new homeland.
304.8 Blu HS
Blumenthal, Shirley. Coming to America : immigrants from the British Isles. Discusses the reasons those people who came to the United States from the British Isles as the settlers of new English colonies and, later, as immigrants seeking a home in a new nation. Includes a chronology of the U.S. immigration laws.
304.8 Gar HS
Garver, Susan. Coming to North America : from Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Explores the immigrant experiences of Mexicans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans in the United States.
304.8 Gru HS
Gruber, Ruth. Exodus 1947 : the ship that launched the nation. The author tells about her experiences in Haifa in 1947 as a foreign correspondent for the "New York Post," where she witnessed the arrival of the ship, Exodus 1947, carrying over 4,500 Holocaust survivors who were attempting to find refuge in Palestine.
304.8 Mar
Marcovitz, Hal. Ellis Island. Traces the history of Ellis Island, the place where immigrants coming to the U.S. were once processed, and discusses its significance to the American people.
304.8 Mel HS
The issues of immigration : melting pot or boiling pot.? A collection of essays that provide a variety of opinions about immigration, presenting an overview of the issue, debating the benefits and drawbacks of immigration, discussing the public cost of immigration, and looking at cases in which immigration has been restricted.
304.8 Per HS
Perrin, Linda. Coming to America : immigrants from the Far East. Discusses the experiences of immigrants from China, Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam to the United States. Includes a chronology of U.S. immigration laws.
304.8 Rip HS
Rips, Gladys Nadler. Coming to America : immigrants from Southern Europe. Discusses the experiences of immigrants from Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain. Includes a chronology of U.S. immigration laws.
304.8 Rob HS
Robbins, Albert. Coming to America, immigrants from Northern Europe. Discusses the experiences of immigrants from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia to the United States. Includes a chronology of U.S. immigration laws.
304.8 San HS
Sandler, Martin W. Immigrants. Photographs, illustrations, and text show what it was like for people to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States.
304.873 Col HS
Collier, Christopher. A century of immigration : 1820-1924. Discusses the economic, social, and religious reasons why immigrants, predominantly from northern Europe, and then from eastern and southern Europe, came to the United States. Considers incidents of prejudice experienced by these immigrants as well as contributions made by those of immigrant background.
325.73 Ben HS
Benton, Barbara. Ellis Island : a pictorial history. Over 100 historical photos, political cartoons, newspaper illustrations, and architectural drawings plus text recount the history of the island.
325.73 Eis HS
Eiseman, Alberta. From many lands. Describes the experiences of immigrants in the United States over a period of two hundred years as recorded in contemporary journals, newspapers, and literature.
325.73 Hea HS
Heaps, Willard Allison,. The story of Ellis Island. A record of the years that Ellis Island served as the immigrants' introduction to America, describing what many Europeans felt and saw upon arrival and the procedures on the island before immigrants were allowed to enter New York.
325.73 Ken HS
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald). A nation of immigrants.
325.73 San HS
Santoli, Al. New Americans : an oral history : immigrants and refugees in the U.S. today. Presents first-hand accounts of exile, entry into America, and the sometimes painful process of Americanization.
325.73 Sev HS
Severn, Bill. Ellis Island : the immigrant years. Traces the history of the small island New York harbor that served as the point of entry into the United States for millions of immigrants from 1892 to 1954.
325.73 Ste
Stein, R. Conrad. Ellis Island. Describes the history, closing, and restoration of the Ellis Island immigration center and depicts the experiences of the immigrants who came to Ellis Island at the turn of the twentieth century.
332.092 Boa HS
Boardman, Fon Wyman. America and the robber barons, 1865 to 1913. Discusses the economic conditions in the United States between 1865 and 1913 and those financiers who prospered during that period.
917.3 Ame HS
The Nineties: glimpses of a lost but lively world,.
920 Bal HS
Tales of the elders : a memory book of men and women who came to America as immigrants, 1900-1930. The recollections of twelve people who immigrated to the United States during the period of the Great Migration between 1900 and 1930.
973.8 Asi HS
Asimov, Isaac. The golden door : the United States from 1865 to 1918. Traces United States history from the Reconstruction through World War I.
973.8 Mad HS
Maddow, Ben. A Sunday between wars : the course of American life from 1865 to 1917. Discusses American political, social, and economic history from the end of the Civil War to the First World War.
973.9 Boa HS
Boardman, Fon Wyman. America and the progressive era, 1900-1917. Political, economic and social survey of America from the turn of the century to the start of World War I.
973.91 Boa HS
Boardman, Fon Wyman. America and the jazz age; : a history of the 1920's.
974.7 Sha HS
Shapiro, Mary J. Gateway to liberty : the story of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Details the history of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island giving the stories of immigrants who entered the U.S. through Ellis Island.
