16 Important Questions . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Welcome to America! . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Station Closes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 EllisIslandToday . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..24 AVisit to Ellis Island .
Our Nation's Pride explores the buildings, celebrations, holidays, symbols, and icons that shape our national identity. Book jacket.
For more than sixty years, one site was the first place in America all new immigrants saw. Find out why Ellis Island holds such an important place in America's history.
Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of Freedom series.
Readers of historical fiction, as well as fans of the novels of Frank Delany and other Irish themed works, will adore their time spent on Ellis Island.
His success at stage acting quickly led to a cinematic career in which he dazzled audiences in films such as My Man Godfrey, You Can't Take It With You, Destry Rides Again, and Brewster's Millions. Mischa Auer (1905–1967) eventually ...
Describes the experiences of immigrants who left their homes in the early 1900s and came to the United States through Ellis Island, in a book where the reader's choices reveal the historical details from three different perspectives.
The fascinating Ellis Island uses immigrants' own words, photographs, and full-color illustrations to explore the significance to those who wished to pursue the American Dream.
A history of immigration through the port of New York, with special focus on the processing at Ellis Island.
"In 1920s New York, a young Irish woman must choose between her new life and her husband back home in Ireland"--
Since opening in 1892, Ellis Island has come to symbolize the waves of immigrants from a list of countries that seems endless. In this work, Bial tells the story of Ellis Island itself. Full color.
This is the people’s history of Ellis Island: the people who passed through it, and the people who were turned away from it.
Both a rich oral history and a complete gallery of images expressing the full range of emotions of a people who left home to find a home, this complete illustrated...
And when I saw Ellis Island, it's a great big place, I wondered what we were going to do in there.
Describes the experiences of immigrants who left their homes in the early 1900s and came to the United States through Ellis Island, in a book where the reader's choices reveal the historical details from three different perspectives.
Its story is the story of our people and their struggles for freedom and dreams of a better life.
The latest novel from this hugely popular Irish author
An exploration of Ellis Island from acclaimed French novelist Georges Perec and filmmaker Robert Bober.
Explore the history of Ellis Island, one of the most recognized landmarks in American history.
The stories in this collection range from children caught in a Vermont blizzard to an English sea captain who encounters an ape adrift in the Indian Ocean.