History 248 Reading Guide

Immigration, Assimilation, and Nativism:  Becoming “American” in the Nineteenth Century

  • James R. Barrett, “Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930,” Journal of American History 79.3 (1992), 996-1020.  JSTOR

Further reading:

  • Kenneth Moss, “St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations and the Formation of Irish-American Identity, 1845-1875,” Journal of Social History 29.1 (1995), 125-148.  Academic Search Premier

Questions forthcoming.