OUSD | De Tocqueville's Ghost : American History Project

“American Democracy, Citizenship & Education” , ,
Jon Gjerde, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

Jon Gjerde is Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. He has written several books on immigration history including The Minds of the West and Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History. link

Readings
* Links active as of January 2004

Common Sense by Thomas Paine - full text of the work from Bartleby.com.
http://www.bartleby.com/133/3.html
Thomas Paine - American Writers Series - CSpan
Companion to TV series: includes transcripts, links, video clips and background information on Thomas Paine and several other writers including James Madison & Thomas Jefferson.
http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/resources/tr_paine.asp
Excerpts from the original U.S. naturalization law of March 26, 1790 (1 Stat 103-104) provided the first rules to be followed by all of the United States in the granting of national citizenship. This act established a uniform rule for naturalization by setting the residence requirement at two years. (see also Background History of the United States Naturalization Process).
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=001/llsl001.db&recNum
=226http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/1790act.htm
George Bancroft - The Office of the People in Art , Government and Religion
Text of an Oration Delivered Before the Adelphi Society of Williams College, in August 1835.
http://www.bartleby.com/268/8/31.html

Other Web Resources
* Links active as of January 2004

ThomasNast.com (HarpWeek, LLC)-A web site dedicated to Thomas Nast and his political cartoons that were featured in Harper's Weekly.
http://www.thomasnast.com/default.htm
Immigrant and Ethnic America (HarpWeek, LLC)-Includes political cartoons by Thomas Nast and articles that appeared in Harper's Weekly. Topics include: culture; labor; anti-Chinese movement; politics; China and the world; ethnic comparisons; and immigration in different regions of the United States. http://immigrants.harpweek.com/
Thomas Nast Virtual Exhitbition : Biography, timeline and cartoon portfolio from Ohio State Libraries.
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/cgaweb/nast/index.htm
Cartoons of Thomas Nast: Reconstruction, Chinese Immigration, Native Americans, Gilded Era
http://www.csubak.edu/~gsantos/cat15.html