Faculty Picks: 5 Best Books on Immigration, selected by Norma Hervey

Birds of Passage:  Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies, by Michael J. Piore.  Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860:  Accommodation and Community in a Frontier City, by Kathleen Neils Conzen.  Harvard University Press, 1976.

A New Religious America:  How a “Christian Country” Has Now Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation, by Diana L. Eck.  HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.

They Chose Minnesota:  A Survey of the State’s Ethnic Groups, edited by June Drenning Holmquist.  Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1981.

The Transplanted:  A History of Immigrants in Urban America, by John E. Bodnar.  Indiana University Press, 1985.

Norma J. Hervey, Emerita Professor of History, Luther College [email protected]; [email protected].  PhD University of Minnesota.  2000 Fulbright scholar, Charles University, Czech Republic; 2007 Fulbright scholar, Moldova State University.  Recent publications have been limited to chapters, book reviews, and translations.  Since retiring in 2007, she has continued to teach in Prague in several schools at Charles University.