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Author: Susan Kuklin Publisher: Paw Prints ISBN: 9781442003651 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Three children, an African American, a Hispanic American, and a Chinese American, shares, in words, photographs, and even recipes, the everyday positive experiences they have living with at least one parent who did not grow up in the United States. Reprint.
Author: Susan Kuklin Publisher: Paw Prints ISBN: 9781442003651 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Three children, an African American, a Hispanic American, and a Chinese American, shares, in words, photographs, and even recipes, the everyday positive experiences they have living with at least one parent who did not grow up in the United States. Reprint.
Author: Dan Yaccarino Publisher: Dragonfly Books ISBN: 0375859209 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 41
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“This immigration story is universal.” —School Library Journal, Starred Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family.” With simple text and warm, colorful illustrations, Yaccarino recounts how the little shovel was passed down through four generations of this Italian-American family—along with the good advice. It’s a story that will have kids asking their parents and grandparents: Where did we come from? How did our family make the journey all the way to America? “A shovel is just a shovel, but in Dan Yaccarino’s hands it becomes a way to dig deep into the past and honor all those who helped make us who we are.” —Eric Rohmann, winner of the Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit “All the Way to America is a charmer. Yaccarino’s heartwarming story rings clearly with truth, good cheer, and love.” —Tomie dePaola, winner of a Caldecott Honor Award for Strega Nona
Author: Nathaniel Deutsch Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520942701 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 273
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This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how a poor white family from Indiana was scapegoated into prominence as America's "worst" family by the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, then "reinvented" in the 1970s as part of a vanguard of social rebellion. In what becomes a profoundly unsettling counter-history of the United States, Nathaniel Deutsch traces how the Ishmaels, whose patriarch fought in the Revolutionary War, were discovered in the slums of Indianapolis in the 1870s and became a symbol for all that was wrong with the urban poor. The Ishmaels, actually white Christians, were later celebrated in the 1970s as the founders of the country's first African American Muslim community. This bizarre and fascinating saga reveals how class, race, religion, and science have shaped the nation's history and myths.
Author: Amy Murrell Taylor Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807899070 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession and husbands and wives struggled with opposing national loyalties. Even enslaved men and women found themselves divided over how to respond to the war. Taylor studies letters, diaries, newspapers, and government documents to understand how families coped with the unprecedented intrusion of war into their private lives. Family divisions inflamed the national crisis while simultaneously embodying it on a small scale--something noticed by writers of popular fiction and political rhetoric, who drew explicit connections between the ordeal of divided families and that of the nation. Weaving together an analysis of this popular imagery with the experiences of real families, Taylor demonstrates how the effects of the Civil War went far beyond the battlefield to penetrate many facets of everyday life.
Author: François Weil Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674076370 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 231
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The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans’ search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to François Weil, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and heritage. Seeking out one’s ancestors was a genteel pursuit in the colonial era, when an aristocratic pedigree secured a place in the British Atlantic empire. Genealogy developed into a middle-class diversion in the young republic. But over the next century, knowledge of one’s family background came to represent a quasi-scientific defense of elite “Anglo-Saxons” in a nation transformed by immigration and the emancipation of slaves. By the mid-twentieth century, when a new enthusiasm for cultural diversity took hold, the practice of tracing one’s family tree had become thoroughly democratized and commercialized. Today, Ancestry.com attracts over two million members with census records and ship manifests, while popular television shows depict celebrities exploring archives and submitting to DNA testing to learn the stories of their forebears. Further advances in genetics promise new insights as Americans continue their restless pursuit of past and place in an ever-changing world.
Author: William Terrell Lewis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Doyle Collection Languages : en Pages : 472
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Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of John Lewis. He was born in Donegal County, Ireland 1678 to Andrew Lewis and Mary Calhoun. He married Margaret Lynn. He died in Virginia 1 Feb 1762. They were the parents of seven children.
Author: Dawnell H. Griffin Publisher: ISBN: 9780692568866 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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While the focus of this book centers on the Allred Family in England and Colonial North America, anyone interested in the story of early immgrants to the Colonies will find this book informative. Members of the Allred family first appear in the records in Eccles Parish, Lancashire, England and continue even after the migration of Solomon Allred, to West Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania and eventual relocation to central North Carolina. This single voyager would change the fortunes of a great many descendants of this family in America, as they became involved in the social and religous life, politics and wars that helped create the world in which we now live. Evidence is presented and well documented and provides a background for future research, writing and dialogue.
Author: Sarah M. Fell Publisher: Alpha Edition ISBN: 9789354023316 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 526
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author: Susan Kuklin
Author: Susan Kuklin
Author: Dan Yaccarino
Author: Nathaniel Deutsch
Author: Amy Murrell Taylor
Author: François Weil
Author: Charles Thornton Libby
Author: William Terrell Lewis
Author: Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks
Author: Dawnell H. Griffin
Author: Sarah M. Fell