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Many of the conference's faculty members, which included such internationally known stars as Rollo May, Albert Ellis and R.D. Laing, said they were astonished by the turnout. All 7,000 participants needed to have a professional degree of some kind or at least be enrolled in a graduate program...
Native-born Americans are ambivalent about the new arrivals. Ambivalence is what old Americans have always felt toward new Americans. At a remove of several generations from Ellis Island, some sentimentalize the immigrant experience. They project their nostalgia upon today's immigrants and wish them well. But the native-born...
For the tens of millions of immigrants washed onto America's shores between 1880 and 1920, the infant movie industry provided more than fantastic diversion; it was a passport to the American dream. In the back rooms of penny arcades as dark and crowded as steerage on a ship chugging...
When Henry James sailed out of New York harbor for Europe in 1875, Ellis Island, to his right, was just an empty rock, and the city he left behind was ethnically familiar. When he returned for a visit three decades later, everything had changed. Into the city had come millions...
The renowned architect has designed some of America's most acclaimed structures, among them the East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington and the John Hancock Building in Boston. But he had no intention of staying when he came to the U.S. in 1935 at 18 to study engineering...