Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide

by Marjorie Lightman and Virginia Yans-McLaughlin

Over 3 million people visit Ellis Island, the "Golden Door to America," every year. Ellis Island has become an invaluable resource center on immigration and genealogy as well as a national tourist attraction, widely praised for its excellent displays and informative exhibits. Now, the best of the Ellis Island Museum is available to readers everywhere from the Ellis Island-Statue of Liberty Foundation. Fascinating primary-source documents offer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565843649
• ISBN13: 9781565843646
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.7" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Short, concise, honestly informative.

Data is only one side to the realities existing in history. This work serves to balance the reader between cold, overhead retrospective data and warm, close-up human perspective creating a full picture of how we've arrived where we are. The first parts of the book are full of tables and graphs. This is followed by documents of the time, personal letters, court records... I highly recommend Ellis Island and the People of America to anyone interested in a brief (yet fufilling) picture of how the United States was populated.