Blumenthal, Shirley

Highlights the origins and meaning of many superstitions.

Discusses 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.

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.