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Students in Professor Karen Manners Smith’s History of Immigration class (Fall 1999) had an opportunity to visit New York City.  We spent four days exploring immigration sites in New York, visiting Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, and the Tenement House Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and participating in a guided walking tour of immigrant neighborhoods in New York.  On their own, students visited the United Nations, Greenwich Village, the Empire State Building, South Street Seaport, the old Fulton Fish Market, and several historic museums in New York.  In the evenings, we sought ethnic restaurants and a few of us went to Broadway shows.  Learning our way by subway and map was our own “immigration experience;” a way of connecting with a place and a culture new and almost totally unfamiliar to most of us.  Dr. Smith plans to repeat this trip when she teaches the course again in the fall of 2001.

Syllabus for History of Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States, Fall 1999.

Syllabus for History of Immigration, Fall 2001.

Last Updated May 4, 2007