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Supplemented with quotes and engaging articles from USA TODAY, the Nations No. 1 Newspaper, The European American Experience shines a spotlight on European Americans and their many exciting contributions to American society. From architects and athletes to singers and chefs, European Americans enrich American life.
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Compares and contrasts the experiences of various immigrant groups when they arrived in America in the 1900s. Discusses the reasons groups immigrated to America, their misconceptions about the country, the path to citizenship, and the experiences of Irish, Chinese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, and Greek immigrants. Includes fact boxes, a timeline, photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
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Highlights immigration to America from the first wave of immigrants in the late 1500s to the influx of immigrants from countries such as Ireland, Germany, and China in the 1800s and early 1900s. Includes a timeline, a glossary, resources for further information, text-related questions, and photographs.
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"In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and journalist Thomas Trappe offer a new way of understanding our past, present, and future. Krause is a pioneer in the revolutionary new science of archaeogenetics, archaeology augmented by revolutionary DNA sequencing technology, which has allowed scientists to uncover a new version of human history reaching back more than 100,000 years....
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This historical documentary compares the different ways that ethnic groups arrived in America. The film focuses on the difference between the arrival of Africans through slavery and the arrival of Irish, Italians, and Asians through immigration. The footage emphasizes the economic disparity and prejudice that all ethnic groups faced and the conditions that allowed successive generations of European-Americans and Asian-Americans to improve their conditions...