ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For generous permission to use copyrighted selections grateful acknowledgment is given to the following publishers and individuals: To Messrs. Harper & Brothers for the selections by M. E. Ravage; to The Pilgrim Press for the selection by George A. Gordon; to Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons for the selection by Edwin L. Godkin; to The Four Seas Company for the selections by Robert M. Wernaer; to Fleming H. Revell Company for the selections by Edward A. Steiner; to J. B. Lippincott Company for the use of part of the address, “True Americanism,” by Carl Schurz; to The Christopher Publishing House for the selections by Enrico C. Sartorio; to Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. for the selection by Felix Adler; to Messrs. P. J. Kenedy & Sons, to the trustees of the estate of Mary J. A. O’Reilly, and to the daughters of the poet, Mrs. William E. Hocking, Miss Mary Boyle O’Reilly and Miss Elizabeth Boyle O’Reilly for the use of poems or parts of poems from the work of John Boyle O’Reilly; to The Century Company and to Miss Anzia Yezierska for the selection, “How I Found America,” from the Century Magazine; to The Century Company also for the selection by Oscar Straus; to Mr. Seraphim G. Canoutas for the selection from his “Hellenism in America”; to The State Historical Society of Iowa and to Mr. Jacob Van der Zee for the selection from “The Hollanders of Iowa”; to Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. and to Mr. Stefano Miele for the selection from an article by Mr. Miele in the World’s Work; to The Macmillan Company for the selections by Angelo Patri and E. G. Stern; to The Macmillan Company and The Outlook Company for the selections by Jacob Riis; and to Mr. Otto H. Kahn and to Mr. John Kulamer for the selections appearing under their names.

The selections by Mary Antin and Abraham M. Rihbany, and the one from Carl Schurz’s “Abraham Lincoln” are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of their works.

Thanks are here also cordially given to those persons, including several authors not mentioned above, who, by their courtesies and encouragement, and in a number of instances by specific suggestions, have assisted in the work of compilation and editing.

CONTENTS[1]

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INTRODUCTION[9]
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS[15]
PHILIP SCHAFF[20]
Cosmopolitan Character of “American Nationality”[21]
FRANCES D’ARUSMONT[29]
The Constitution and Establishment of the Federal Government[30]
FRANCIS LIEBER[33]
A German Immigrant Points Out the Dangers of Segregation[34]
Political Liberty in America[36]
CARL SCHURZ[38]
An Immigrant’s Tribute to Lincoln[39]
“True Americanism”[40]
EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN[44]
An Immigrant’s Faith in Democracy[45]
JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY[52]
“The Exile of the Gael”[52]
“The Pilgrim Fathers”[54]
“Liberty Lighting the World”[55]
“America”[57]
HANS MATTSON[58]
Scandinavian Contribution to American Nationality[59]
JACOB RIIS[61]
“A Young Man’s Hero”: An Immigrant’s Tribute to Roosevelt[63]
JACOB VAN DER ZEE[66]
“Why Dutch Emigrants Turned to America”[67]
EDWARD BOK[71]
OSCAR SOLOMON STRAUS[72]
“America and the Spirit of American Judaism”[73]
FELIX ADLER[77]
The American Ideal[78]
MARY ANTIN[82]
An Immigrant’s Tribute to the Public School and to George Washington[83]
“The Law of the Fathers”: A View of the Declaration of Independence[89]
ABRAHAM MITRIE RIHBANY[91]
America Offers Something Better than Money[92]
An Immigrant Tells his Struggles with the English Language[94]
EDWARD ALFRED STEINER[96]
“The Criminal Immigrant”[97]
Industrialism and the Immigrant[105]
GEORGE A. GORDON[111]
“The Foreign-born American Citizen”: Cost, Privilege and Duties of his Citizenship[112]
SERAPHIM G. CANOUTAS[121]
Americanization: Its Principles and Meaning[123]
STEFANO MIELE[125]
Some Obstacles to Americanization[126]
JOHN KULAMER[130]
“The American Spirit and Americanization”[131]
ENRICO C. SARTORIO[136]
Patronizing the Foreigner[137]
Training for Citizenship[140]
OTTO HERMANN KAHN[143]
“Capital and Labor—A Fair Deal”[144]
MARCUS ELI RAVAGE[150]
The New Immigration[151]
What College Life in the West Did for an Immigrant[152]
ELIZABETH G. STERN[160]
The Pathos of Readjustment[161]
ROBERT M. WERNAER[166]
“The Soul of America”[167]
“We Must Be True”[172]
ANGELO PATRI[173]
An Immigrant and His Father[174]
An Immigrant and the Children[177]
ANZIA YEZIERSKA[181]
“How I Found America”[182]

LIST OF AUTHORS WITH THEIR WRITINGS FROM
WHICH SELECTIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN
FOR INCLUSION IN THIS VOLUME

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Adler, Felix[77]
The World Crisis and Its Meaning
Antin, Mary[82]
The Promised Land
They Who Knock at Our Gates
Bok, Edward[71]
Canoutas, Seraphim G.[121]
Hellenism in America
D’Arusmont, Frances (1795-1852)[29]
Views of Society and Manners in America
Godkin, Edwin L. (1831-1902)[44]
Problems of Modern Democracy
Gordon, George A.[111]
The Appeal of the Nation
Kahn, Otto H.[143]
Capital and Labor—A Fair Deal. Pam. pub. by the author
Kulamer, John[130]
The American Spirit and Americanization
Lieber, Francis (1800-1872)[33]
The Stranger in America
Mattson, Hans (1832-1893)[58]
Reminiscences
Miele, Stefano[125]
America As a Place to Make Money. (In “World’s Work,” December, 1920)
O’Reilly, John Boyle (1844-1890)[52]
Selected Poems. Kenedy
Patri, Angelo[173]
A Schoolmaster of the Great City
Ravage, Marcus E.[150]
An American in the Making
Rihbany, Abraham M.[91]
A Far Journey
Riis, Jacob (1849-1914)[61]
The Making of an American
Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen
Sartorio, Enrico C.[136]
Social and Religious Life of Italians in America
Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)[20]
American Nationality. Pam.
Schurz, Carl (1829-1906)[38]
Abraham Lincoln: An Essay. Houghton
Speeches. 1865. Lippincott
Steiner, Edward A.[96]
From Alien to Citizen
Nationalizing America
Stern, Elizabeth G.[160]
My Mother and I
Straus, Oscar S.[72]
The American Spirit
Van der Zee, Jacob[66]
The Hollanders of Iowa
Wernaer, Robert M.[166]
The Soul of America
Yezierska, Anzia[181]
How I Found America. (In “Century Magazine,” November, 1920)

The American Spirit in the Writings
of Americans of Foreign Birth