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Additional resources for this issue of History Now
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Immigrant Fiction: Exploring an American Identity
You’ll find a good online overview at the “American
Immigration Literature” website from the University
of Houston/Clear Lake:
http://coursesite.cl.uh.edu/HSH
/Whitec/LITR/4333/research/
default.htm
Take a look, too, at this lesson plan for creating a classroom
play about immigrants from PBS’s “First Measured
Century” website:
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/lessons/lesson2.htm
For immigration from Europe, 1850-1920, go to the Library
of Congress’s “Learning Page” on the
subject:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/educators/workshop/european/wover.html
For Jewish immigration, you’ll find excellent teacher
resources at Channel Thirteen's “Immigration to
the Golden Land” section of their website:
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/teachingheritage/lessons/lp4/index.html
For novels based on immigrant experience in the Midwest,
you might begin with American Memory’s “Pioneering
the Upper Midwest” section, which will help students
understand Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html
And don’t neglect this lesson plan for Willa Cather's
My Ántonia :
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=443
In addition, these printed sources will also provide good
background for you and your students about topics raised
in this essay:
Diner, Hasia R. The Jews of the United States, 1654
to 2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press,
c2004).
Hertzberg, Arthur. The Jews In America: Four Centuries
Of An Uneasy
Encounter (New York: Simon and Schuster, c1989).
Iorizzo, Luciano J., and Salvatore Mondello. The Italian
Americans (Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1980).
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