Browse Items (22 total)
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'Evangeline' and bias
Short response to a question submitted to the monthly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford regarding First Amendment politics, the Acadians, and the history of anti-Catholic prejudice in Connecticut. -
The Belles of New England
A presentation by William Moran on his book, "The Belles of New England," as a portion of the 2002 Concord Festival of Authors, Concord, Massachusetts. From C-SPAN: "Mr. Moran discussed his book 'The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove,' published by Thomas Dunne Books. The book recounts the rise and fall of the New England textile industry of the 19th century. Mr. Moran traces the experiences of the thousands of women who left New England farm towns and the Irish, Canadian and European immigrants who came to work in the textile mills. At a time when women had no political influence, these workers opposed mill owners like the Cabots and Lowells of Boston for fair wages and safer working conditions. Following his remarks, Mr. Moran answered questions from members of the audience."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Business and Economics, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Gender and Sexuality, Great Britain, Ireland, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Saco ME, Saco River Valley, Social History, Sports and Leisure, Waltham MA -
The Origins and Development of French-Canadian Family Names
From the author:"Although most French-Canadian surnames bear a strong resemblance to those found in France today, many have undergone various types of orthographical and phonological alterations which make them unique in the French-speaking world. Further contributing to this singularity is the admixture of a substantial number of French names from other countries (Belgium, Switzerland) as well as non-French names from France (Basque Country, Brittany, Alsace-Lorrain) and elsewhere (Germany, Ireland, United States, Spain, etc.) This article is an attempt to provide an account of the origins and development of this amalgam of family names." -
Canadians in the United States
Brief 1913 review of what the author calls "the great Canadian exodus" - the period from 1850 to 1900 when nearly 1.8 million English and French Canadians emigrated to the United States.Tags Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Business and Economics, Cambridge MA, Canada, Chicago IL, Cincinnatti OH, Cleveland OH, Demography, Detroit MI, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Family, Geography, Germany, Great Britain, Holyoke MA, Ireland, Jersey City NJ, Lawrence MA, Louisville KY, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, New Bedford MA, New Haven CT, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Newark NJ, Newfoundland, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Paterson NJ, Philadelphia PA, Pittsburgh PA, Providence RI, Rochester NY, San Francisco CA, St. Louis MO, St. Paul MN, United States, Washington DC, Worcester MA -
Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans
From the author: "In this essay, I test the Crièvecoeurian myth of Americanization against the rich body of work produced by historians and other students of European immigration in the twentieth century. The myth consists of four distinct claims: first, that European immigrants wanted to shed their Old World ways and to become American, second, that Americanization was quick and easy because the immigrants found no significant obstacles thrown in their path, third, that Americanization 'melted' the immigrants into a single race, culture, or nation, unvarying across space and time, and fourth, that immigrants experienced Americanization as emancipation from servitude, deference, poverty, and other Old World constraints....I focus on literature generated since World War I on European immigration from 1880 to 1920, the era of the so-called new immigrants."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Austria, Boston MA, Bulgaria, Chicago IL, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Europe, Germany, Government and Politics, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jewish Americans, Lithuania, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Poland, Portugal, Québec, United States, War, Woonsocket RI, Yugoslavia -
Ethnic Diversity within Catholicism : A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary and Historical Religion
Brief sociological and historical analysis of the convergences and divergences of religion and ethnicity. Sections devoted to Italian, Irish, French Canadian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Polish, and German Catholic societies. -
Vieux articles et vieux ouvrages : Le Rev. M. Bédard, curé de Fall River (1886) Suite. [no. 1]
Deuxiième partie d'une piièce biographique sur un prêtre canadien-français aux Etats-Unis. Sa vie comme curé de la paroisse à Flint Village, Fall River, Massachusetts. Ses préoccupations culturelles au sein de sa paroisse, et les aspects de ses relations avec les paroissiens et les prêtres irlandais-américaine. Certains événements dans la vie des catholiques franco-américaines de Fall River à la fin du 19ième siiècle.Tags Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Flint Village MA, Ireland, Irish Americans, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Providence RI, Québec, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Rhode Island -
Vieux articles et vieux ouvrages : Le Rev. M. Bédard, curé de Fall River (1886) Suite. [no. 2]
Troisiième partie d'une piièce biographique sur un prêtre canadien-français aux Etats-Unis. Les communications avec son évêque, et ses efforts à développer une paroisse nationale à Fall River, au Massachusetts. Quelques commentaires sur les efforts de ce prêtre à la lutte contre la maltraitance des canadiens-français catholiques et les travailleurs de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Sa maladie et sa mort éventuelle. Une réimpression de l'article sur son cérémonies funéraires comme présenté dans le périodique canadien, "Castor." Une transcription de son "testament de feu."Tags Acadians, Bowenville MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, East Douglas MA, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Flint Village MA, Ireland, Irish Americans, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Millbury MA, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Providence RI, Québec, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Rhode Island, Taunton MA, Tiverton RI, Westport MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
'Evangeline' and bias
Short response to a question submitted to the monthly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford regarding First Amendment politics, the Acadians, and the history of anti-Catholic prejudice in Connecticut. -
Flight from Certainty : The Dilemma of Identity and Exile
Collection of essays in cultural criticism, with specific emphases on national, ethnic, and linguistic identities in transit. Divided in the text by the geographies to which each essay pertains. From the introduction: "The authors [in 'Flight from Certainty'] have attempted to combine scholarship, personal experience, wit, and irony in dealing with questions which so far have gone unanswered: 'How far is identity modelled by the country in which people grow up and believe they have their roots? What happens to the concept of identity when a person abandons one country to live in another?'"Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Africa, Australia, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, India, Ireland, Italy, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, New England, New Zealand, Québec, Sanford ME, South Africa, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Violence -
Ballots and Bibles : Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence
From Cornell University Press: "Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century....In a departure from standard histories of immigrants and workers in the United States, 'Ballots and Bibles' views religion as a critical tool for new Americans seeking to influence public affairs. In Providence, this book demonstrates, Catholics used their parishes as political organizing spaces. Here they learned to be speakers and leaders, eventually orchestrating a successful response to Rhode Island's Americanization campaigns and claiming full membership in the nation."Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Ireland, Italy, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Violence, War -
Louisiana Francophones : Origins and Evolution since 1673
Changing face of the francophone presence in Louisiana - from French colonial rule beginning in the 17h century, to the Acadian migrations of the 18th century, through Spanish and eventual American rule, and meshed into the assimilative forces of contemporary anglophone America.Tags Acadians, Alabama, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, Fishing, France, Germany, Government and Politics, Haiti, Ireland, Louisiana, Mississippi River Valley, Mobile AL, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Spain, United States -
Why Can't They Be Like Us? : America's White Ethnic Groups
Andrew M. Greeley, an American Catholic priest and writer, offers in "Why Can't They Be Like Us?" a preliminary investigation of white minorities in the United States. His observations are considerate of both social formations and religious movements within ethnic communities, concluding with a prediction for the cultural futures of ethnic immigrants to the United States. -
Ethnicity
A selection of essays on religion and ethnicity in international contexts. Emphasis on Catholicism. Includes pieces situated in Western Europe, North America, and French Canada, on topics ranging from church attendance, to nationalism, to biblical exegesis and religious studies. -
Ethnic Diversity in Catholic America
Sociology of Catholic religion in the United States. Explores how ethnicity characterizes Roman Catholicism in immigrant communities in the. Abramson supports his claims with statistics compiled by the National Opinion Research Center.Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Geography, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Poland, Puerto Rico, Québec, Religion, Social History, United States -
Becoming American : An Ethnic History
A history of immigration in the United States, its national impact, and the effects of American naturalization upon immigrant ethnic identity. From the cover: "From the English settlers who founded the Jamestown colony to the recent refugees from Vietnam and Cuba, the history of American has always been tied to the fortunes of its immigrants. Thomas J. Archdeacon presents a fascinating account of the foreign peoples and cultures that for nearly four centuries have transformed America and, in the process, transformed themselves. Discussing Europeans and Asians, Africans and American Indians, he weaves their stories together, shows how they mingle and diverge, and relates their collective experience to the critical decisions we face in coping with the thousands of immigrants who continue to arrive yearly on our shores."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Canada, Chinese Americans, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, German Americans, Government and Politics, Ireland, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Labor History, Mexican Americans, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Québec, Religion, Slavic Americans, United States -
The Cities on the Saco : A Pictorial History
A photo-history of the cities of the Saco River Valley in southern Maine. A heavily researched and crafted exhibition of landscapes from colonization to contemporary times, 'The Cities on the Saco' weaves a storytelling tapestry of Saco, Biddeford, and the Old Orchard regions that should be held dearly by their diverse coastal communities. From the text: "Here are the many scenes which our ancestors saw but, equally important, the images (economic, social, political) which Saco, Biddeford, and Old Orchard became. Here one catches the beauty of stately mansions and churches as a counterpoint to some of the more squalid social and industrial conditions in which lower classes lived. The spirit of the times, whether rural in the early two centuries or urban during the past hundred years, may be found here, too.... Not only is this a collection of enormously insightful photographs, it is the first comprehensive local history in a hundred years..."Tags Art and Architecture, Biddeford ME, Business and Economics, Casco ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Education, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Falmouth ME, Fishing, Folklore, Forestry, France, Government and Politics, Ireland, Journalism, Kennebunk ME, Kittery ME, Labor History, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Old Orchard Beach ME, Portland ME, Portsmouth NH, Québec, Religion, Saco ME, Saco River Valley, Scotland, Social History, Sports and Leisure, War, Winter Harbor ME, York ME -
Coming to America : A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Comprehensive history of immigration to the United States from the 17th to the 21st century. Divided into [ ] parts: Colonial America; The Century of Immigration (1820-1924); and Modern Times.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, California, China, Cuba, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Germany, Government and Politics, Greece, Haiti, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Labor History, Mexico, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Norway, Pennsylvania, Poland, Puerto Rico, Québec, Religion, Scotland, Sweden -
A Pictorial History of Immigration
American immigration history in photos by the author of the award-winning historical piece, "The Uprooted." -
The Franco-Americans : A Franco-American's Chronicle of Historical and Cultural Environment : Augusta Revisited
A thorough history of the Franco American presence in the city of Augusta, Maine, up to the 1970s. Histories of mill, church, school, and community, from their migrant inception through sometimes celebratory, sometimes violent, persistence. Illustrated with anecdote and commentary. Contains in the appendices lists of names of city officials, social club presidents, and clergy, among others.Tags Augusta ME, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Hallowell ME, Ireland, Kennebec River Valley, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Québec, Religion, Sand Hill ME, Sports and Leisure, Violence -
French Canadians in New Hampshire
Outline of dates and figures; compilation of facts and notes relevant to the history of French Canadian immigrants in the state of New Hampshire around the beginning of the twentieth century. Designed by the New Hampshire Historical Society for teachers and students. Contains brief bibliography.Tags Bibliography, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, England, Epping NH, Finland, Goffstown NH, Gonic NH, Hooksett NH, Ireland, Italy, Labor History, Lebanon NH, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Pembroke NH, Poland, Québec, Religion, Russia, Suncook NH, War, Worcester MA -
The Belles of New England : The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove
A history of New England women during industrialization, and the lifestyle differences among women of different economic classes. From Thomas Dunne Books: "This is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills. The author, an award-winning CBS producer, traces the history of American textile manufacturing back to the ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lodge. The early mills were an experiment in benevolent enlightened social responsibility on the part of the wealthy owners, who belonged to many of Boston's finest families. But the fledgling industry's ever-increasing profits were inextricably bound to the issues of slavery, immigration, and workers' rights....William Moran brings a newsman's eye for the telling detail to this fascinating saga that is equally compelling when dealing with rags and when dealing with riches. In part a microcosm of America's social development during the period, 'The Belles of New England' casts a new and finer light on this rich tapestry of vast wealth, greed, discrimination, and courage."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Business and Economics, Connecticut, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Gender and Sexuality, Great Britain, Ireland, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Religion, Saco ME, Saco River Valley, Social History, Sports and Leisure, Waltham MA