Passage to Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passage to Liberty write by A. Kenneth Ciongoli. This book was released on 2003-10-01. Passage to Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Italian influence can be seen everywhere -- in its buildings and its books, in its culture and its cuisine. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of how Italians became Americans and fulfilled their dreams. Woven into the history of Italian immigration to the New World is the true story of Antonio, grandfather of one of the authors, and of his family's assimilation and acceptance in America. Both a work of history and a moving narrative, this book brings to life the experiences of a people whose talents and self-sacrifice helped them to make this country their own. Includes realistic replicas of items that can be taken out and handled, such as a passport and birth certificate, mass cards, and an Italian-American mutual society membership booklet. Beautifully designed!
Passage to Liberty
Passage to Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passage to Liberty write by Ken Ciongoli. This book was released on 2002-10-08. Passage to Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Passage to Liberty recaptures the drama of the 19th and 20th century immigration to America through photos, letters, and other artifacts -- uniquely replicated in three-dimensional facsimile form. In the tradition of Lest We Forget, Chronicle's bestselling interactive tour through the African American experience, the text uses the stories of individuals and families -- from early explorers, through the wave of 19th century impoverished families, to contemporary figures -- to recapture the rich heritage the Italian people carried with them over the waves, and planted anew in the American soil. Among the topics covered here are: The roots of American democracy in Roman history The migration of 15 million Italians, 1880-1920 Catholicism in Italian-American culture Food, music, and other Italian cultural traditions The Mafia: myth and reality Cultural icons: DiMaggio, Sinatra, Madonna & more As vibrant and packed full of history as previous volumes in this extraordinary series, Passage to Liberty is a splendid and loving tribute to the Italian-American experience.
Passage to Freedom
Passage to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passage to Freedom write by Ken Mochizuki. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Passage to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Listening to the story is even more dramatic than reading it. It should be purchased by every public and school library." - School Library Journal
Passages to Freedom
Passages to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passages to Freedom write by David Blight. This book was released on 2006-01-24. Passages to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness. This stirring drama is one Americans have needed to tell and retell and pass on to their children. But just how much of the Underground Railroad is real, how much legend and mythology, how much invention? Passages to Freedom sets out to answer this question and place it within the context of slavery, emancipation, and its aftermath. Published on the occasion of the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Passages to Freedom brings home the reality of slavery's destructiveness. This distinguished yet accessible volume offers a galvanizing look at how the brave journey out of slavery both haunts and inspires us today.
American Passage
American Passage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Passage write by Vincent J. Cannato. This book was released on 2009-06-09. American Passage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
