Immigration The Atlantic Crossing Under Sail the Bibliography Background and History

Michael J. Anuta, Ships of our Ancestors  (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983). 900 steamship images and information on year and line sailed. 

Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1988). Revolution = 1776

Vincent J. Cannato, American Passage: The History of Ellis Island  (New York City: Harper-Collins Publishers, 2009).

Ivan Chermayeff, Fred Wasserman, & Mary J. Shapiro, Ellis Island: An Illustrated History of the Immigrant Experience (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991).

Terry Coleman, Coming to America (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987). -  famine Irish emigrants, Liverpool emigrants, 1846-1855 experiences.

Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life (New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990).

Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 (New York City: Hill and Wang, 2004).

Peter A. Hammerschmidt, Land of Immigrants: We Came to America (Philadelphia: Mason Crest Publishers, 2003).  - youth series with many ethnic groups covered. 

Andrew A. Kling, Life on a New World Voyage (New York: Thomson Gale, 2005).  - youth.

Edita Lausanne, The Great Age of Sail (Greenwich, Connecticut: Time-Life Books, 1967).

Brian Lavery, Ship : 5000 Years of Maritime History (London, Dorling Kindersley, 2004).   

Jason Allen Mayberry - “Scurvy and Vitamin C - Food and Drug Law” - April 27, 2004 - Class and 3L Paper  http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/658/Mayberry.html

Catherine Reef, Africans in America (New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1999).  - youth.

Tony Robinson, The Worse Jobs in History: Two Thousand Years of Miserable Employment (London: Boxtree an imprint of Pan MacMillian Ltd, 2004).  Fun, informative, yucky.     

Ron Rosenbaum, “First Blood,” Smithsonian, Volume 43, Number 11 (March 2013): 27-34.    Review of Bernard Bailyn’s new book: The Barbarous Years.

Helen Hornbeck Tanner, editor, The Settling of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the Present (New York: Macmillan, 1995).    Emphasis on First American experience with European invasion & settlements.

Dorothy Denneen Volo & James M. Volo, Daily Life in the Age of Sail (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002).

Jane Ziegelman, 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement (NY, Smithsonian Books, HarperCollins Publishers, 2010).

Searching for Ancestors’ Ships - How to find that immigrant
John P. Colletta, They Came in Ships, 3rd Edition (Orem, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 2002).

John Camden Hotten, Original Lists of Persons of Quality, 1600 - 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986) - originally published in London, 1874.

Loretto Szucs & Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, editors, The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, 3rd edition (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2006).

Michael Tepper, American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1999).

Also Filby, Germans to America, NARA indexes, published books of indexes, www.ancestry.com, www.familysearch.org (go to learning area & immigration, a 4-part series of how to find), 

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - www.immigrantships.net

Web sites - www.

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