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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Santillana USA
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Fue la puerta de entrada a una nueva vida en Estados Unidos para millones de personas. Los enemigos de Estados Unidos fueron retenidos aquí durante la Primera y Segunda Guerras Mundiales...[pero,] ahora es un museo que rinde homenajea la historia de los inmigrantes"--Cover.
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...
6) Ellis Island
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A look at the history of Ellis Island, the primary immigration point into the United States from 1892-1954.
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
8) Ellis Island
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1491
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Georges Perec, employing prose meditations, lists, and inventories (of countries of origin, of what the immigrants carried), conjures up in Ellis Island the sixteen million people who, between 1890 and 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet; his mother perished in Auschwitz) is wide-awake to the elements of chance in immigration and survival:...
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