Servants Of The Poor
Subtitle: Teachers And Mobility In Ireland And Irish America
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780268036591
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Education; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; History - U.S.; History: American; Ireland; USA; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; United States - 19th Century; United States - 20th Century; Education (Higher); History; Irish American women; Social conditions; United States; Women teachers
First sentence: The immigration museum on Ellis Island in New York Harbor presents a fascinating although sanitized picture of the arrival, processing, and eventual assimilation of the millions of immigrants who arrived in the United States between the 1890s and the 1950s.