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Introductory Activity
Handouts
Learning Activity #1: Colonial Period / Early America
Handouts
Web Site
Learning Activity #2: Building America: 1820 - 1880
Handouts
Web Sites
Books and Articles
Agueros, J.(ed.), Wheeler, H., & Wheeler, T.C. (ed.), The Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American (New York: Viking Press)
Learning Activity #3: Mass Immigration 1880-1924
Handout
Web Sites
Books and Articles
Metzker, I. (ed.), The Bintl Brief: Sixty Years of Letters From the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward (New York: Schocken Books/Random House)
Spewack, B., Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY)
Calof, R., & Rikoon, J.S., (ed.), Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains (Indiana: Indiana University Press)
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