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Presents the history of inter-war America from the perspective of fresh Slovak and Eastern European immigrant communities. This book adds complexity and nuance to entrenched notions of conflicts between tradition-bound immigrants and their American-born children.

The second "wave" of U.S. immigration, from 1870 to 1920, brought more than 26 million men, women, and children onto American shores. June Granatir Alexander's history of the period underscores the diversity of peoples who came to the United States in these years and emphasizes the important shifts in their geographic origins from northern and western Europe to southern and eastern Europe that led to the distinction between "old" and "new" imm...

Presents the history of inter-war America from the perspective of fresh Slovak and Eastern European immigrant communities. This book adds complexity and nuance to entrenched notions of conflicts between tradition-bound immigrants and their American-born children.