Advanced Search | Selected Subjects | Tags
Items | Articles (17 total)
Deprecated: The each() function is deprecated. This message will be suppressed on further calls in /home/francoli/public_html/application/helpers/Functions.php on line 180
- Author: Bottigheimer, Ruth B.
Date: 1993-sum
Publication: The Journal of American Folklore
Volume: 106
Language: en
Article on narrative motifs and patterns of historical development in the folkloric story of "The Lazy Boy" : a "male tale" traced internationally over nearly five hundred years of oral and written storytelling, through various iterations of…
- Author: Lagassé, Julie de Champlain
Date: 1952
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 22391365
Le carnet de route d'une artiste qui a quitté son mari et ses enfants à Boston afin de voyager vers la France et l'Italie. "L'Étoile blanche" est le nom qu'elle donne au navire qu'elle prend à travers l'Atlantique. Comprend une partie de…
- Author: Tirone Smith, Mary-Ann
Date: 2006
Language: English
Find in a Library: 61151630
Read:
Read: Preview
Memoir of a woman growing up in the immigrant city of Hartford, Connecticut in the 1950s. Her French Canadian and Italian relatives, her childhood, early adulthood, and the processes of recollecting them. Divided into five parts: Mortality; Brain…
- Author: Green, Nancy L. (editor)
- Author: Weil, François (editor)
Date: 2007
Language: en (translation)
Find in a Library: 69734523
English translation of "CitoyenneteÌ et eÌmigration: Les politiques du deÌpart" (EÌditions de l'EÌcole des hautes eÌtudes en Sciences sociales, 2006). Collection of essays on migration, expatriation, and the perpetuation of…
- Author: Sterne, Evelyn Savidge
Date: 2003
Language: en
Find Online: OL7848540M
Read: Preview
From Cornell University Press: "Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century....In a…
- Author: Greeley, Andrew M.
Date: 1971
Language: English
Find in a Library: 135350
Andrew M. Greeley, an American Catholic priest and writer, offers in "Why Can't They Be Like Us?" a preliminary investigation of white minorities in the United States. His observations are considerate of both social formations and religious movements…
- Author: Drachsler, Julius
Date: 1920
Language: en
Find in a Library: 557403
Find Online: OL7027369W
Read: Full text
An early immigrant history of the United States with a particular emphasis on the impact of World War I, and with a heavy reliance on United States marriage statistics. Drachsler evaluates the cultural and economic impacts of foreign immigration to…
- Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)
Date: 1993
Language: en
Find in a Library: 26636102
Find Online: OL1859013W
Read: Preview
From University of Illinois Press: "In this richly evocative collection ten men and women of European, Latin American, and Asian backgrounds tell of their immigrant experiences. They range from a Shetland Islander who sailed to Virginia as an…
- Author: Daniels, Roger
Date: 2002
Language: en
Find in a Library: 50930977
Find Online: OL2664429W
Read: Preview
Comprehensive history of immigration to the United States from the 17th to the 21st century. Divided into [ ] parts: Colonial America; The Century of Immigration (1820-1924); and Modern Times.
- Author: Handlin, Oscar
Date: 1972
Language: en
Find in a Library: 389635
Find Online: OL1170977W
American immigration history in photos by the author of the award-winning historical piece, "The Uprooted."
- Author: Ouelette, Joanne
- Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Date: 2013
Language: en
Read: Full text
Outline of dates and figures; compilation of facts and notes relevant to the history of French Canadian immigrants in the state of New Hampshire around the beginning of the twentieth century. Designed by the New Hampshire Historical Society for…
- Author: Tomasi, Mari
Date: 1949
Language: English
Find in a Library: 414117
1940s novel on immigrant stone-cutters of Green Mountain State granite. Explores in specific the Italian American worker experience. "Like Lesser Gods" was republished in 1988 by the New England Press. Written by former Vermont Writers' Project…
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
Date: 1997-09
Publication: The Journal of American History
Volume: 84
Language: en
Find in a Library: 35782298
From the author: "In this essay, I test the Crèvecoeurian myth of Americanization against the rich body of work produced by historians and other students of European immigration in the twentieth century. The myth consists of four distinct claims:…