Myths about migration: historical and philosophical perspectives by Melissa Lane (History & Policy)

Myths about migration: historical and philosophical perspectives

by Melissa Lane

from History & Policy: connecting the study of history to today.

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First World War Timeline

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Part of the excellent resource run out of the National Archives and The Imperial War Museum, a timeline for The First World War from 1914 to 1920.

Link to timeline (outside THF network).

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Further Reading re 'Attitudes to Early Twentieth Century Immigration into the USA'

Recommended by Dr. Kevin Yuill, Senior Lecturer, University of Sunderland:

Roger Daniels, Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997)

Kristofer Allerfeldt, Beyond the Huddled Masses: American Immigration and the Treaty of Versailles (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006)

James A. Barrett, “Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working-Class in the United States, 1880-1930,” Journal of American History Vol. 79, No. 3 (December 1992), pp996-1020.

King, Desmond, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (London: Harvard University Press, 2000)

Oscar Handlin, Race and Nationality in American Life (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1957, ©1948)

Mae M. Ngai,, Impossible Subjects:Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005)

John Gjerde, Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History (Boston, 1998)

Kevin Yuill, “Creating an American Music: A Critical View of the Origins of Country,” Reconstruction 8.4 (2008)

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Attitudes to Early Twentieth Century Immigration in the USA

Kevin Yuill, University of Sunderland.

In 1924 Congress passed the Johnson-Reed, or National Origins, Act, declaring racial and ethnic background as the most important determinant in gaining American citizenship. Those with Asian backgrounds were barred altogether. This session examines both the run-up to this crucial legislation and its impact on immigration up until it was superseded in 1966.

Contents:

Immigration to the United States in the Nineteenth Century
The New Immigration from 1890
The International Events Affecting Attitudes to Immigration
The Campaign for Normalcy and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
The Immigration Act of 1924
Immigration after 1924

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