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124 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups evolved throughout U.S. history, particularly between 1800 and 1965. The book concludes with a summary of events up to contemporary times, as immigration again becomes a hot-button issue."--Provided by publisher.
10) Ellis Island
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Introduces the history of Ellis Island as an American immigration port during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and describes how the island is used as a monument and museum today.
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115 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm
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English
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Letters, diary entries, poems, monologues and diaglogues created to illustrate the stories of people whose lives were touched by Ellis Island, once the United States' largest immigration station.
12) Angel Island
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
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English
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A look at the immigration station on the West coast.
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105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Español
Description
Describe la historia de Ellis Island, una puerta de entrada para muchos inmigrantes procedentes de los Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX y principios del XX y detalles de la restauración de la señal y su reapertura como Museo.
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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xxi, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
In this book, the renowned Mexican journalist, León Krauze presents a charming Mosaic: fifty stories of people, fifty lives that portray the experience of migrating to the United States and the battle to achieve a better life. Inspired by conversations, spontaneous and candid, in the successful television segment 'La Mesa,' which has broken ratings on Univisión records, Krauze revives the tales of those who have had the courage to emigrate, leaving...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Famous Hispanic women in history have inspired countless young women to believe in their dreams. From artists to astronauts and writers to politicians, many great Latino-American history makers have changed the world. The program celebrates notable Hispanic-American Women whose influence has touched us in every walk of life. There isn't an industry in which Hispanic Americans haven't made their mark in history, with some of the most iconic scientists,...
19) Ellis Island
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1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the history of Ellis Island, the primary immigration point into the United States from 1892-1954.
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English
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"A sweeping history of the legislative battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for the immigration debates roiling America today. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is today so pervasive, and seems so foundational, that it can be hard to believe Americans ever thought otherwise. But a 1924 law passed by Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for...
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