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American education and the European immigrant, 1840-1940
- Conferences
- Duquesne History Forum (12th : 1978 : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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- Creator
- edited by Bernard J. Weiss
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1981
- ©1982
- Physical Details
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- xxviii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0252008790, 9780252008795
- OCLC
- ocm07274263, ocm07274263
- Selection of papers presented at the 12th annual Duquesne History Forum held on Oct. 18-20, 1978 in Pittsburgh.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Bernard J. Weiss -- Education and the European immigrant, 1820-1920 / Oscar Handlin -- The huddled masses and the little red schoolhouse / John J. Appel and Selma Appel -- Public schools and immigrants : the New York City experience / Selma Berrol -- Education and the advancement of American Jews / Leonard Dinnerstein -- American education and the Italian immigrant response / Salvatore J. LaGumina -- Schooling and the Slavic-American family, 1900-1940 / John Bodnar -- The Americanization movement and the education of the foreign-born adult, 1914-25 / John F. McClymer --The international institutes and immigrant education, 1910-40 / Raymond A. Mohl -- The intercultural education movement, 1924-41 : the growth of tolerance as a form of intolerance / Nicholas V. Montalto -- Immigration and American Catholic higher education / Philip Gleason -- Duquesne University : a case study of the Catholic university and the urban ethnic, 1878-1928 / Bernard J. Weiss -- Ethnic confrontations with state universities, 1860-1920 / Victor R. Green