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Ellis Island, at the southern tip of Manhattan, was the major portal for European immigration to the United States, and accordingly it looms large in 19th and early 20th century history. After extensive restoration, today it is a national symbol and an important historic site. Authored by a noted historian and librarian at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, this is the first illustrated encyclopedia devoted to the Island, documenting its various incarnations. It contains more than 430 essay entries on the crucial people, operations, rooms and buildings, events, immigration laws and acts, organizations, and other aspects of the island's history.
This ready reference—recently updated and widely expanded with hundreds of archival photographs—is perfect for almost anyone: students, researchers, armchair genealogists, or just browsers.
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Dave Wilcox
reviewed The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ellis Island on May 01, 2012
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ellis Island
For a popular book of history, this is about as close to perfect as a one can get. Short, focused chapters, connections to present-day dilemmas, hidden villains and heroes (like John C. Fremont who really is due), Davis deserves a lot of credit here.
Davis sees echoes of 19th-century history in post-9/11 America, and he provides them without veering into polemic. As I read this, I kept thinking of "A People's History of the United States," for the way it illuminated the lives of oppressed peoples--Southern Indian tribes, slaves, Catholic immigrants. Yet Davis lets the facts speak for themselves and leaves plenty of room for readers to reach their own conclusions.
What really struck me was how many of these "untold tales" were located in the South. I live in Tennessee, and yet I found new insights into such events as the Creek & Seminole Wars, slave uprisings, and the addition of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi into the Union. Unlike the West, where Native Americans still factor into the culture because of the proximity of so many reservations, Indians in the South are both gone and forgotten.
I learned a lot. I think that's the highest compliment I can pay any book, and this one certainly earned that accolade.
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