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What is cultural history?

What is cultural history?. Bridget Draxler, Monmouth College INTG: Citizenship. Why did they come? According to PBS "Destination America", immigrants came to America for: Freedom to worship Freedom from oppression Freedom from want Freedom from fear Freedom to create

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What is cultural history?

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  1. What is cultural history? Bridget Draxler, Monmouth College INTG: Citizenship

  2. Why did they come? According to PBS "Destination America", immigrants came to America for: • Freedom to worship • Freedom from oppression • Freedom from want • Freedom from fear • Freedom to create Which reason motivated your family? http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/index.html

  3. Why did they come HERE? Bird's eye view of the city of Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois 1869. Drawn by A. Ruger.

  4. Genealogy Numerous websites offer services to help rediscover family history. • Why is this service appealing? • What would you want to find? • What would you not want to find? • Why are family histories important? • What can we learn from family history?

  5. How would you describe the American Dream? How would you describe the Spirit of America? What keywords define America? • originality • opportunity • growth • posterity • liberty • expectation (white picket fence, 2.5 kids) • upward social mobility • potentially misleading... not everyone can make it • different for each person • independence • progression

  6. The Declaration of Independence We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

  7. "The Melting Pot" Where did this term come from? a) Popularity of the peasant dish fondue, from the French fondre, "to melt." b) A play with a Romeo and Juliet style plot. c) Derived from the steel industry, it refers to molten iron.

  8. The term melting pot came from a 1908 play by English writer Israel Zangwill. The melodrama transposed the plot of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to New York City, with the star-crossed lovers now from Russian Jewish and Russian Cossack backgrounds. In the play's climactic moment, the hero proclaims: "Understand that America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! A fig for your feuds and vendettas! Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians—into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American." http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim_qz1c.html

  9. How are the American Dream and the Spirit of America rooted in our history as a nation of immigrants? • people came here to make better lives for themselves... or to pursue better lives • change, new beginnings • expansion: moving west, looking for gold "Manifest Destiny" • Individual • US is a collection of external identities... no unique identity? no national language, culture, food. derivative.

  10. How is immigration different today from 50, 100, or 200 years ago? How is immigration the same? What do these similarities and differences suggest about where we are as a nation today?

  11. America on the Move: Latino Stories According to the 2000 United State census, about 12.5 percent of the entire population is Latino, the largest ethnic minority group in the nation. 51 percent of the foreign-born in the U.S. are Latino and of that number, over one-fourth are Mexican. http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/themes/story_51_2.html In 2002, the U.S. Census Bureau pegged the country's foreign-born population at 11.5%, not far off the historic high of 15% in 1910. Most Latino children were born in the US. Minority births now outnumber white births in the US.

  12. Suggested Links New York Public Library--Images of Ellis Island Library of Congress--American Memory Collections US Citizenship and Immigration Services

  13. Recommended Readings from PBS Afkhami, Mahnaz. Women in Exile. University Press of Virginia, 1994. Archdeacon, Thomas J. Becoming American: An Ethnic History. New York: Free Press, 1984. Benton, Barbara. Ellis Island: A Pictorial History. New York: Facts on File, 1987. Brownstone, David M., and Irene M. Franck and Douglass Brownstone (Eds.) Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World through Ellis Island In Their Own Words. Metro Books, 2002. Conover, Ted. Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens. New York: Vintage, 1978. Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. HarperPerennial, 1991. Daniels, Roger. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Dinnerstein, Leonard and Roger L. Nichols and David M. Reimers (Eds.) Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Foner, Nancy. From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

  14. Recommended Readings, cont. Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Grunberger, Michael W., and Hasia R. Diner. From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America. New York: George Braziller, 2004. Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Jacoby, Tamar (Ed.) Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to Be American. New York: Basic Books, 2004. Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Moreno, Barry. Encyclopedia of Ellis Island. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. Portes, Alejandro and Ruben G. Rumbault. Immigrant America: A Portrait. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. New York: Little Brown, 1989. Tanner, Helen Hornbeck. The Settling of North America: Atlas of the Great Migrations from the Ice Age to the Present. New York: MacMillan, 1995. The Editors of Time-Life Books. Immigrants: The New Americans. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1999. Webb, James. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. New York: Broadway Books, 2004.

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