immigration

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.

Photographs, illustrations, and text show what it was like for people to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States.

Traces the history of the Industrial Revolution from its roots in eighteenth-century England, through its beginnings in the United States, to its decline in the twentieth-century.

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. Text, interwoven with diaries, letters, and interviews, describes how the Statue of Liberty came to exist.

Covers American history from Washington's inauguration until the first quarter of the 19th century, including the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark's expedition, and the beginnings of abolitionism.

A history of Ellis Island including photographs and personal accounts of immigrants who passed through the gates.

A look at the lives of Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Irish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island around the turn of the twentieth century.

Beginning in England, the industrial revolution spread to the rest of the world, producing great changes. Includes see-through scenes of a coal miner's home, a railroad station, a cotton factory, and a crowded immigrant ship.

Presents opposing viewpoints on three immigration issues: should illegal immigration be stopped; should legal immigration be restricted; and does bilingual education benefit non-English speaking children. The reader may practice distinguishing between objective fact telling and propaganda techniques.