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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over... |
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The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
Rebecca Clarren - Viking
Format: Book
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An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement... |
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Abrams Press
Format: Book
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In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches,... |
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
Daniel James Brown - Viking
Format: Book
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They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese heritage and the ways of their American homeland. They faced bigotry, yet they believed in their bright futures as American citizens. But within days of Pearl Harbor, the FBI was ransacking... |
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Little America: Incredible True Stories of Immigrants in America
- MCD
Format: Book
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From the pages of Epic magazine come the true stories that Inspired the Apple Original Series.Includes nearly a hundred color photographs and a Foreword by Kumail Nanjiani.Nearly everyone in America came from somewhere else. This is a fundamental part of the American idea -- an identity... |
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The Making of Asian America: A History
Erika Lee - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject.In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds... |
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Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
Hasia R. Diner - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America.Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century regarded one another with open hostility, fiercely... |
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Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
Mayukh Sen - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers.Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women,... |
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson - Random House
Format: Book
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From... |
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