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Five Points : the 19th-century New York City neighborhood that invented tap dance, stole elections, and became the world's most notorious slum
Five Points (an intersection in lower Manhattan formed when Anthony Street was extended to meet Orange and Cross-today's Baxter and North Streets), was the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America. Visitors from Charles Dickens to Abraham Lincoln flocked to Five Points to witness the filthy streets, bordellos, gambling dens, and tenements that housed the lowest of the low. A close look at Five Points reveals a hidden world. As one of the most ethnically varied areas in the nation's most diverse city, The Five Points story is a classic American example of immigrant energy and ambition. From \"Bowery Boy\" culture to the invention of tap dance, to the most famous prize-fight of the century, to the timeless photographs of Jacob Riis, Five Points illuminates the colorful history of a fascinating community.
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Plentiful country : the great potato famine and the making of Irish New York
Uncover the gripping narrative of Irish immigrants who transformed America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. Tyler Anbinder's landmark work exposes the grit and resilience of the Famine Irish, defying hardship to redefine the American dream. From the bustling streets of New York to the heart of a nation in the middle of change, the compelling journey of these unrecognised heroes is unveiled, painting a vibrant scene of hope that echoes through the heart of America. A captivating testament to courage and perseverance, this book is a must-read, illuminating a pivotal chapter in the making of modern America, a testament to the enduring spirit that forged a new home in the land of opportunity.
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Moving beyond \Rags to Riches\: New York's Irish Famine Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts
That there could be any uncertainty today concerning the economic achievements of nineteenth-century immigrants would have surprised historians forty years ago during the heyday of the \"new urban history.\" Its practitioners believed that by adopting the methodology of social scientists, they could objectively determine whether the immigrants' dreams of moving from rags to riches had any basis in reality. Here, Anbinder finds that New York's famine immigrants saved much more money, and did so more quickly, than historians' gloomy portrayals of the famine immigrants would lead to believe. He suggests that historians discard the concept of \"rags to riches\" and instead consider the immigrants' own, more modest goals--accumulating an emergency find or the means to buy a home or business--when assessing their achievements in the US.
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Irish Origins and the Shaping of Immigrant Life in Savannah on the Eve of the Civil War
Anbinder explores Irish origins and the shaping of immigrant life in Savannah on the eve of the Civil War. He examines from where exactly in Ireland the immigrants who emigrated in the wake of the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840s and early 1850s originated. He also considers the extent to which an immigrant's Irish birthplace affected his or her employment opportunities. Then, he reconstructs how the immigrants' birthplace in Ireland influenced where they chose to reside within Savannah, both tin the city as a whole and within Savannah's ramshackle Irish enclaves.
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Networks and Opportunities: A Digital History of Ireland’s Great Famine Refugees in New York
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For decades, historians portrayed the immigrants who arrived in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century fleeing the great Irish Famine as a permanent proletariat, doomed to live out their lives in America in poverty due to illiteracy, nativism, and a lack of vocational skills. Recent research, however, primarily by economic historians, has demonstrated that large numbers of Famine refugees actually fared rather well in the United States, saving surprising sums in bank accounts and making strides up the American socioeconomic ladder. These scholars, however, have never attempted to explain why some Famine immigrants thrived in the U.S. while others struggled merely to scrape by. Utilizing the unusually detailed records of New York’s Emigrant Savings Bank in conjunction with the methods of the digital humanities, this article seeks to understand what characteristics separated those Irish Famine immigrants who fared well financially from those who did not. Analysis of a database of more than 15,000 depositors suggests that networking was the key to economic advancement for the Famine immigrants. Those who lived in residential enclaves with other immigrants born in the same Irish parish saved significantly more than other immigrants, and those who created employment niches based on an Irish birthplace also amassed more wealth than those who did not. The electronic version of the article provides easy access to the database and interactive maps, allowing readers to ask their own questions of the data. The article also fleshes out the life stories of many of the immigrants found in the database, using documents found on genealogy websites such as Ancestry.com. These handwritten census records, ship manifests, and bank ledgers are hyperlinked to the electronic version of the article. That makes this essay ideal for classroom use—students can move effortlessly to the documents that underpin each paragraph and see clearly how historians use archival evidence to formulate arguments and shape historical narratives.
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Networks and Opportunities
For decades, historians portrayed the immigrants who arrived in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century fleeing the great Irish Famine as a permanent proletariat, doomed to live out their lives in America in poverty due to illiteracy, nativism, and a lack of vocational skills. Recent research, however, primarily by economic historians, has demonstrated that large numbers of Famine refugees actually fared rather well in the United States, saving surprising sums in bank accounts and making strides up the American socioeconomic ladder. These scholars, however, have never attempted to explain why some Famine immigrants thrived in the U.S. while others struggled merely to scrape by. Utilizing the unusually detailed records of New York’s Emigrant Savings Bank in conjunction with the methods of the digital humanities, this article seeks to understand what characteristics separated those Irish Famine immigrants who fared well financially from those who did not. Analysis of a database of more than 15,000 depositors suggests that networking was the key to economic advancement for the Famine immigrants. Those who lived in residential enclaves with other immigrants born in the same Irish parish saved significantly more than other immigrants, and those who created employment niches based on an Irish birthplace also amassed more wealth than those who did not. The electronic version of the article provides easy access to the database and interactive maps, allowing readers to ask their own questions of the data. The article also fleshes out the life stories of many of the immigrants found in the database, using documents found on genealogy websites such as Ancestry.com. These handwritten census records, ship manifests, and bank ledgers are hyperlinked to the electronic version of the article. That makes this essay ideal for classroom use—students can move effortlessly to the documents that underpin each paragraph and see clearly how historians use archival evidence to formulate arguments and shape historical narratives.
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Boston’s Immigrants and the Making of American Immigration History
It is hard to imagine that Handlin's own childhood in an immigrant household did not influence his choice of topic for his first book or his approach to it. Handlin was born in Brooklyn on Sep 29, 1915, the first child of Russian Jewish immigrants, Joseph and Ida, who had arrived in the US just a few years earlier (his mother in 1903 and his father 1913). Later in life, Handlin denied that there was any linkage between his own life story as the child of immigrants and his choice of thesis topic. Asked if the topic would have appealed to him had he not been the son of immigrants from the Ukraine. Thus, when immigrants appeared in 1941, it was a completely new kind of history book, a study of a single immigrant community. Here, Anbinder examines Handlin's historical writing about American immigration.
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Which Poor Man's Fight? Immigrants and the Federal Conscription of 1863
The two book-length studies of the Northern draft, by Eugene Murdock and James W. Geary, devote very little attention to immigrants, concentrating instead on the conscription's many procedural problems and controversies.2 Bell Wiley and James McPherson have both published careful analyses of who fought for the North, but because their figures lump draftees together with volunteers, their statistics tell us only that immigrants were not overrepresented in the army as a whole, and leave the question of the newcomers' treatment in the draft unresolved.
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Peaceably If We Can, Forcibly If We Must
The politics of the 1850s have probably been studied in more detail than that of any other decade in American history. It is surprising, then, that even though immigrants made up a larger portion of the electorate in this period than in any other in U.S. history, immigrants’ political activity in these crucial years is not well understood. The impact of the Know-Nothing Party on the destruction of the so-called second party system, the place of nativism in the new Republican Party, and the Democrats’ success at courting immigrant voters have all been thoroughly examined. But while immigration as a
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