St. Leo the Great

Catholic School

LIBRARY

 

Resources Available for the Eighth Grade Immigration Project

 

 

Resources Available at

St. Leo’s  Library

 

General Books on Immigration:

Dudley, William.  Immigration:  opposing viewpoints.  San Diego:  Greenhaven Press, 1990.  325.1 Dud.

Eiseman, Alberta.  From Many Lands.  New York:  Atheneum, 1970.  325.1 Eis.

Freedman, Russel.  Immigrant kids  New York:        Dutton, 1980.  325.1 Fre.

Hoff, Rhoda.  America’s immigrants:  adventures in eyewitness history.  New York:  H.Z. Walck, 1967.  325.73 Hof.

Hoobler, Dorothy.  We are Americans.  New York:  Scholastic, 2003.  304.8 Hoo.

Katz, William Loren.  The Great migrations, 1880s-1912.  Austin, TX:  Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1993.  973 Kat.

Reeves, Pamela.  Ellis Island:  gateway to the American dream. New York: Crescent Books, 1991. 325.1Ree.

Sandler, Martin W.  Island of Hope:  the story of Ellis Island and the journey to America.  New York:  Scholastic, 2004.  304.8 San.

 

Books on Ethnic Groups

Catalano, Julie.  The Mexican Americans.  New York:  Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.  973 Cat.

Cavan, Seamus.  The Irish American Experience. Broofield, CN:  Millbrook Press, 1993.  973 Cav.

Dolan, Sean.  The Polish Americans.  New York:  Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.  973 Dol. 

Galicich, Anne.  The German Americans.  New York:  Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.  973 Gal.

Gunderson, Cory G. Swedish Americans.  Philadelphia:  Chelsea House, 2003.  973 Gun.

Leyburn, James G.  The Scotch-Irish:  A Social History.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1962.  973 Ley.

Mayberry, Jodine.  Eastern Europeans.  New York:  F. Watts, 1991.  973.04 May.

Mellon, James (ed).  Bullwhip Days:  the Slaves Remember. New York: Avon Books, 1990.REF 326 Mel.

Saxon-Ford, Stephanie.  The Czech Americans.  Philadelphia:  Chelsea House, 1999.  973 Sax.

Israel, Fred.  The Amish.  New York:  Chesea House, 1996. 305.6 Isr

 

Reference Sets:

The American Family Albums by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler.  This ten volume set includes:  African, Chinese, Cuban, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Mexican, and Scandinavian Americans.  Each volume contains an introduction by a famous member of the ethnic group.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994-1996. REF 973.04 Hoo.

We Came to North America series, with 10 volumes by various authors.  Volumes include The Germans, The Hispanics, The Irish, The Italians, The Japanese, The Poles, The Africans, The French, The Chinese, The Jews. 2000. 973.

 

Videos

America:  The New Immigrants.  Monitor Channel Presentations.  1994.  327.73  VHS.

Out of Ireland.  An American Focus Production.  New York:  Shanachie Entertainment, 1995.  973 VHS.

Slavery: America’s Peculiar Institution.Culver City, CA:  Zenger Productions, 1989.

 

Periodicals

Cobblestone:  The Magazine of American History.  (Data base for  1980-1998;  hard copy collection 1995-present.)

National Geographic Magazine.  (Data base 1888-2000;  hard copy collection 1953-present).

U.S. News and World Report

 

Web sites:

Visit Learn NC on the computers in the media center at St. Leo’s or at home:  http://www.learnnc.org/

From there, click on Web links in the ‘search for’ pull-down box, and type immigration in the search box.  You’ll get listings that include:

The Immigration and Naturalization Service:  http://www.uscis.gov/

The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation: http://www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html

A History Channel look at Ellis Island:  http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html

The New Americans, an on-line immigration adventure: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans

 

 

Resources Available

in our Community

 

Forsyth County Public Library

General Books on Immigration:

Brimner, Larry D.  Angel Island.  New York:  Childrens Press, 2001.  J979.462B

 

Coan, Peter M.  Ellis Island Interviews:  in their own words.  New York:  Facts on File, 1997.  304.873 C.

 

Maestro, Betsy.  Coming to America:  the story of immigration.  New York:  Scholastic, 1996.  J304.873M.

 

Reimers, David M.  A Land of immigrants.  New York:  Chelsea House, 1996.  J304.8 R.

 

Books on Ethnic Groups

Horton, Casey:  The Jews.  New York:  Crabtree Publishling, 2000.  J973.049H.

 

Millet, Stephen.  The Scottish settlers of America:  the 17th and 18th centuries.  Clearfield, 1998.  NC973.049 M.

 

Nickles, Greg.  The Japanese.  New York:  Crabtree Publishing Co., 2001.  J973.049N

 

Reef, Catherine.  Africans in America.  New York:  Facts on File, 1998.  970.004.R.

 

Rutledge, Paul.  The Vietnamese in America.  New York:  Lerner Publications, 1987.  J973.049R.

 

Tolzmann, Don H.  German Immigration to America:  the first wave.  Bowie, MD:  Heritage Books, 1993.  NC325.243G.

 

Local Sites for Immigration Information

Three ethnic groups that settled in North Carolina may be of particular interest:

 

The Moravians, who settled in Old Salem.

 The Old Salem homepage at http://www.oldsalem.org  will give you to a brief history of the Moravians, a chronology, and tour information.

 

The Scots and Scotch-Irish, who settled in the highlands of North Carolina.  See this web site for further information:

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mcclell2/homepage/migrate.htm

 

The Montagnards, who settled here when they fled political oppression in their Cambodian homeland. 

A good place to start in gathering information on them is http://www.salemstate.edu/imc/vietnam/minorities.html