Biographical

For a brief biography that gives the basic facts on Howe's life click here.

If you are interested in a longer more detailed portrait of Irving Howe, read this commentary by Alan Wald.

This review of Gerald Sorin's biography, Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent offers many thoughtful insights into Howe's work and life.

Here is a long, informative appreciation of Irving Howe from the winter 1996 issue of the magazine Judaism.

Bibliographical:

For those who want to read more of Howe's work, here is a bibliography of articles that appeared in The New York Review of Books from 1963 to 1993. A bibliography of books by Howe appears at the end of the article listing.

If you'd like to learn more about the book World of Our Fathers, from which the selection in Now and Then is taken, read this review from the journal Theology Today.

Cultural:

This detailed database contains an archive of passenger ship manifests 1892 - 1924 which can be searched to find individual passengers. Before you can get very deep into the site, you will be asked to register (no charge). This is a great, fast way to look for records of family members or friends who might have come through Ellis Island in the 1892 - 1924 period.

An archive of Ellis Island photographs from the University of California’s California Museum of Photography covering the period 1900-1920 offers a powerful visual record of this time period. What do these photos suggest about the lives, hopes, and fears of the people who appear in them?

Go to this educational on-line site maintained by the publisher Scholastic to find a “research starter” which lists topics to explore along with links to sites relevant to those topics. Also included are stories from both older and more recent immigrants, an on-line tour of Ellis Island, and immigration statistics.

This link, offers, through WebQuest, a group-oriented role playing project on immigration and the American dream with extensive resource links to the immigration experience of the first European settlers, and of later Irish, Chinese, Jewish, and Latin American immigrants. Other links deal with past and current issues in immigration policy and law enforcement.