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Strangers at the Door
Ellis Island, Castle Garden, and the Great Migration to America

by
Ann Novotny

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Bibliography

BOOKS ABOUT ELLIS ISLAND AND CASTLE GARDEN

Andrews, William L. The Iconography of the Battery and
  Castle Garden. New York: Scribner's, 1901.

Bearss, Edwin C. The Ferryboat "Ellis Island," Transport to
  Hope. Washington: National Park Service, 1969.

Bender, Eric J. Island Gateway: the Way of Life on Ellis
  Island. Evanston: Row, Peterson, 1942.

Berengarten, Sidney. Ellis Island. Washington: Civil Works
  Administration for Office of National Parks, 1934.

Bureau of Immigration. Visitor's Guide to Ellis Island. New
  York, 1921.

Caminita, Ludovico. Nell' Isola delle Lagrime: Ellis Island.
  New York: Stabilimento Tipografico Italia, 1924.

Corsi, Edward. In the Shadow of Liberty: the Chronicle of
 Ellis Island. New York: Macmillan, 1935.

Ellis Island Committee. Report of the Ellis Island Committee.
  New York: Privately printed, 1934.

Gilder, Rodman. The Battery. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936.
  Heaps, Willard. The Story of Ellis Island. New York: Seabury,
  1967.

Howe, Frederic C. The Confessions of a Reformer. New York:
  Scribner's, 1925, Chapters 25-32.

Immigration and Naturalization Service. History of Ellis Is-
  land, New York. mimeo, Nov. 1, 1953.

Lemmon, lone G. Ellis Island. New York: mimeo, 1942.
  National Park Service. A Study Report on Ellis Island. Wash-
  ington: N.P.S., 1964.

Pike, Henry H. Ellis Island: Its Legal Status. Washington:
  General Services Administration, Office of General Counsel,
  1963.

Pitkin, Thomas M. A Report on Ellis Island as an Immigrant
  Depot, 1890-1954. New York: National Park Service,
  mimeo, 1966.

Reimer, Rudolph. History of Ellis Island. New York: mimeo,
  1934.

Safford, Victor. Immigration Problems: Personal Experiences
  of an Official. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1925.

Smith, Darrell H., and Herring, H. Guy. The Bureau of Im-
  migration: Its History, Activities and Organization. Balti-
  more: Johns Hopkins, 1924.

Svejda, George J. Castle Garden as an Immigrant Depot,
  1855-1890. Washington: National Park Service, mimeo,
  1968.


SELECTED BOOKS ABOUT THE IMMIGRANTS

Adamic, Louis. Laughing in the Jungle: The Autobiography
  of an Immigrant in America. New York: Harper, 1932.

Antin, Mary. The Promised Land. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
  1912.

Beard, Annie. Our Foreign-Born Citizens. New York: Crowell,
  1955.

Bennett, Marion T. American Immigration Policies: A History.
  Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1963.

Bernard, William S. American Immigration Policy: A Reap-
  praisal. New York: Harper, 1950.

Blegen, Theodore C., ed. Land of Their Choice: The Immi-
  grants Write Home. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis
  Press, 1955.

Bowers, David F., ed. Foreign Influences in American Life.
  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944.

Brandenburg, Broughton. Imported Americans: The Story of
  the Experiences of a Disguised American and His Wife
  Studying the Immigration Question. New York: Stokes,
  1904.

Brown, Francis J., and Roucek, Joseph S., ads. One America:
  The History, Contributions, and Present Problems of Our
  Racial and National Minorities. New York: Prentice-Hall,
  1952.

Commager, Henry S., ed. Immigration and American History:
  Essays in Honor of Theodore C. Blegen. Minneapolis: Uni-
  versity of Minneapolis Press, 1961.

Divine, Robert A. American Immigration Policy, 1924-1952.
  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957.

Eaton, Allen. Immigrant Gifts to American Life. New York:
  Russell Sage, 1932.

Ernst, Robert. Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-
  1863. New York: King's Crown, 1949.

Ets. Marie Hall. Ross: The Life of an Italian Immigrant.
  Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1970.

Fermi, Laura. Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migra-
  tion From Europe, 1930-1941. Chicago: University of
  Chicago Press, 1968.

Fleming, Donald, and Bailyn, Bernard, ads. The Intellectual
  Migration: Europe and America, 1930-1960. Cambridge:
  Harvard University Press, 1969.

Glazer, Nathan, and Moynihan, Daniel P. Beyond the Melting
  Pot. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1963.

Graham, Stephen. With Poor Immigrants to America. New
  York: Macmillan, 1914.

Gross, Theodore L., ad. A Nation of Nations: Ethnic Literature
  in America. New York: Free Press, 1971.

Guillet, Edwin C. The Great Migration: The Atlantic Crossing
  by Sailing-Ship Since 1770. New York: Nelson, 1937.
  Second edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963.

Handlin, Oscar, ad. Immigration as a Factor in American His-
  tory. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1959.

Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great
  Migrations That Made the American People. Boston: Little,
  Brown, 1951.

Hansen, Marcus Lee. The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860.
  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940, 1951.

Hansen, Marcus Lee. The Immigrant in American History.
  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940, 1951.

Heaton, Eliza O. The Steerage: A Sham Immigrant's Voyage
  to New York in 1888. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1919.

Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American
  Nativism. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1955.

Hoff, Rhoda. America's Immigrants: Adventures in Eyewitness
  History. New York: H. Z. Walck, 1967.


Husband, Joseph. Americans by Adoption: Brief Biographies
  of Great Citizens Born in Foreign Lands. Boston: Atlantic
 Monthly, 1920.

Hutchinson, Edward P. Immigrants and Their Children, 1850-
  1950. New York: Wiley, 1956.

Johnson, Stanley C. A History of Emigration From the United
  Kingdom to North America, 1763-1912. London: Routledge,
  1913.

Jones, Maldwyn A. American Immigration. Chicago: Univer-
  sity of Chicago Press, 1960.

Kennedy, John F. A Nation of Immigrants. New York: Har-
  per & Row, 1964.

Knaplund, Paul. Moorings Old and New: Entries in an Im-
  migrant's Log. Madison: State Historical Society of Wis-
  consin, 1963.

Lowenstein, Evelyn. Picture Book of Famous Immigrants.
  New York: Sterling, 1962.

Maisel, Albert Q. They All Chose America. New York: T.
  Nelson, 1957.

Murray, Robert K. Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria,
  1919-1920. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press,
  1955.

Neidle, Cecyle S. The New Americans. New York: Twayne,
  1967.

Panunzio, Constantine M. The Deportation Cases of 1919-
  1920. New York: Da Capo, 1970.

Panunzio, Constantine. The Soul of an Immigrant. New York:
  Arno Press, 1969.

Post, Louis F. The Deportation Delirium of Nineteen-twenty:
  A Personal Narrative of an Historic Official Experience.
  Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Co., 1923.

Preston, William, Jr. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppres-
  sion of Radicals, 1903-1933. Cambridge: Harvard Uni-
  versity Press, 1963.

Redding, Jay Saunders. They Came in Chains: Americans
  From Africa. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1950.

Reid, Ira de A. The Negro Immigrant . . . 1899-1937. New
  York: Columbia University Press, 1939.

Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the
  Tenements of New York. New York: Scribner's, 1902.

Sanders, Ronald. The Downtown Jews: Portraits of an Immi-
  grant Generation. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

Schappes, Morris U. The Jews in the United States: A Pic-
  torial History, 1654 to the Present. New York: Citadel, 1958.

Schoener, Allon. Portal to America: Portrait of the Lower East
  Side, 1870-1925. New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1967.

Smith, William C. Americans in the Making: The Natural His-
  tory of the Assimilation of Immigrants. New York: Appleton-
  Century, 1939.

Solomon, Barbara M. Ancestors and Immigrants: A Changing
  New England Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard University
  Press, 1956.

Steiner, Edward A. On the Trail of the Immigrant. New York:
  Revell, 1906. Second edition, New York: Arno, 1969.

Stephenson, George M. A History of American Immigration,
  1820-1924. Boston: Ginn, 1926. Second edition, New York:
  Russell & Russell, 1964.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Amateur Immigrant: From the
  Clyde to Sandy Hook. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895.

Wheeler, Thomas C. The Immigrant Experience: the Anguish
  of Becoming American. New York: Dial, 1971.

Wittke, Carl F. We Who Built America: The Saga of the
 Immigrant. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1939. Second edition,
  Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1964.

Yezierska, Anzia. Children of Loneliness: Stories of Immigrant
  Life in America. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1923.

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