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Episodes tagged "Immigrants": 1 through 7 of 7

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  1. Jane Addams takes a look back at Hull-House, twenty years later.
    date 1910map Cook, Illinoistags Immigrants, Women, Jane Addams, Hull House, Social Movement, Social Settlement

    In Twenty Years at Hull-House, Jane Addams reflected that after twenty years, Hull-House held true to its charter: “To provide a center for the higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.” However, she realized some changes had taken place at Hull-House. ...

  2. How the United States Differentiated Itself From England
    date 1914map New York, New Yorktags Differences, Immigrants

    What were people truly gaining from venturing to America? This is what many like the writer below quested to experience and understand.  Stephen Graham, a British traveller, walked about New York City and stopped to converse with an American man in a club. The man opened Graham’s eyes to the American mentality when Graham asked if it was embarrassing to take such great risks such as death and disease...

  3. State of Liberty and Immigrants: First Days
    date 1886map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Statue of Liberty, Immigrants

    The Statue of Liberty is an icon of today, just as it was for immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th Century.  The inauguration of the Statue of LIberty took place on Thursday, October 23, 1886.  The day started with a military, naval and civil parade in New York City.  After the parade, a signal was given for steamers in the bay to move in a particular and pre-calculated order towards the island....

  4. The Irish Brigade Endures More Hard Fighting at Gettysburg
    date July 2, 1863 to July 4, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags Civil War, Gettysburg, Immigrants

    "After a long and fatiguing march, we arrived on the evening of the 1st instant within about 3 miles of Gettysburg,” wrote Major Sergeant Clair Mulholland in his 1863 battlefield report.  There the 116th Pennsylvania Infantry, along with others of its Brigade, awaited orders to the sound of the surrounding battle.  In the late afternoon the Brigade finally marched toward the battle, eager to succeed...

  5. With poor immigrants to America
    date 1914map New York, New Yorktags European immigrants, America in 19th Century., Immigrants

    In 1914, Stephen Graham, an European, wrote a book describing his first journey in the United States and why he was so impressed. First, he wrote about why he came to U.S., “I came to America to see men and women and not simply bricks and mortar, to understand a national life rather than to moan over sooty cities and industrial wildernesses. Hundreds of thousands of healthy Europeans passed annually...

  6. An English traveler visits America
    date October, 1864map COOK, Illinoistags Chicago, Immigrants, Industry

    Chicago, during the 1860’s, was an up-and-coming commercial city filled with buzz, people, industry and trade. Steamships and large boats rolled down rivers, canals, and out into and in from the mighty Lake Michigan. Streets were filled with the hustle and bustle of shoppers and market traders. John Francis Campbell, who visited Chicago from England in 1864, likened the city to a major European city...

  7. The 16th Massachusetts Regiment Disbanded in 1864
    date July 27, 1864map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Infantry, Immigrants, Irish-Americans, Union Army, Civil War

    On July 27, 1864, Private Richard Monnahan was discharged from G Company of the 16th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, on the day the entire regiment was mustered out.  According to his discharge form from the United States Pension Office, Monnahan was 22 years old, five feet five inches tall, of dark complexion with dark grey eyes. The 16th regiment was formed in 1861 and served until July of 1864. ...