Towards an Island of Hope
Author | : Pacific Conference of Churches. Consultation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Globalization |
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Author | : Pacific Conference of Churches. Consultation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Globalization |
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Author | : Vincent J. Cannato |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2009-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0060742739 |
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation's preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.
Author | : Patricia Brennan Demuth |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 044847915X |
From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not restored until the 1980s, when Americans from all over the country donated more than $150 million. It opened to the public once again in 1990 as a museum. Learn more about America's history, and perhaps even your own, through the story of one of the most popular landmarks in the country.
Author | : Manchester Geographical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Manchester Geographical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Geography |
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Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Globalization |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Merchant mariners |
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Author | : Great Britain. Hydrographic Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Pilot guides |
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Author | : Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2016-06-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1504986466 |
In the mind of each person on the planet, a set of notions and ideas of God or gods reside. Some of these systems are basic and simple. Others are highly complex and complicated. Some borrow their God/god notions from authority, or from others they know. Others are much more original - eclectically piecing together many separate parts from multiple sources. No two people in the world experience and translate God/gods in the same way. And this is what makes things so interesting! As I have encountered this wonderful life, I have also bumped up against countless people who were in the position to explain exactly who God was and was not. They were quite sure of themselves, and anxious to impart this wisdom to me. But because I had a mind and heart of my own, this put me on the outside looking in, for much of my life. We all come to a place where we realize we must make our minds up as to what we will and will not do, how we will think and who we will be. As I have encountered them and their God/gods, I have found my own way through this foggy maze, and discovered a modicum of peace and reconciliation in the process. This is the massive task of all of us, as well as why I needed to lay it out to you, in this lengthy, 2-part book.
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Aids to navigation |
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