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New Jersey Historical Commission
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P.O. Box 305
Trenton, NJ 08625

Tel: (609) 292-6062
Fax: (609) 633-8168

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Immigration Restrictions

GRADES 9 THROUGH 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

"Reflections on American Ethnicity"
pp. 99-117. In Folk Legacies Revisited
David Steven Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

"Interlude, 1920-1960"
(Restriction and Quotas, Those Who Returned, Aging Immigrant Communities, Enduring Ethnic Cultures, Ethnic Politics, Weakening of Ethnic Ties)
pp. 49-57. In Immigration and Ethnicity in New Jersey History
Douglas V. Shaw. New Jersey History Series. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1994.

New Jersey Legacy Teachers Guides
Program 7, A State of Many Nations
David Steven Cohen. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 2004.

Audio and Video

A State of Many Nations,
Program 7 in the New Jersey Legacy television series. A co-production of NJN Public Television and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 2000.

America, The Dream of My Life
Three half-hour radio documentaries based on the Federal Writers Project's New Jersey Ethnic Survey, narrated by Eli Wallach, co-produced by David Steven Cohen and Marty Goldensohn. A co-production of WBGO Radio and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992. (Streaming Audio)
http://www.talkinghistory.org/cohen.html

Coming From India
A one-hour radio documentary about Asian Indians in New Jersey, narrated by Chitra Ragavan, written and produced by David Steven Cohen and Marty Goldensohn. A co-production of NJN Radio and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1998. (Streaming Audio)
http://www.talkinghistory.org/cohen.html

Seabrook at War
A one-hour radio documentary about Japanese-Americans from the detention camps and Eastern Europeans from the Displaced Persons Camps who were resettled at Seabrook Farms during and after World War II. A co-production of WWFM Radio and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1995.
http://www.talkinghistory.org/cohen.html

Documents

Words That Make New Jersey History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
These Foreigners Must be Educated: Americanizing the Immigrant (1916), pp. 201-202.

New Jersey History Partnership Project
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Progressive Era"
Click on "Immigration"
Click on "Classroom Activities-Documents"
Excerpts from the Dillingham Commission Report, 1910-1911
Excerpts on New Jersey immigrants from the 1910 US Census

New Jersey Legacy Teachers Guides
program 7, A State of Many Nations
David Steven Cohen. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 2004.
Excerpts on New Jersey immigrants from the 1850 US Census, pp. 89-90.

Online Lecture

David Cohen, "New Jersey's Immigrants During the Progressive Era" (online lecture)
New Jersey History Partnership Project
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Progressive Era"
Click on "Immigration"
Click on "Online Lecture-David Cohen"

Internet Sites

New Jersey History Partnership Project
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Progressive Era"
Click on "Immigration"

New Jersey Women's History Website
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Web%20Pages/Imm.htm