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PAGEINTRODUCTION9ACKNOWLEDGMENTS15PHILIP SCHAFF20Cosmopolitan Character of “American Nationality”21FRANCES D’ARUSMONT29The Constitution and Establishment of the Federal Government30FRANCIS LIEBER33A German Immigrant Points Out the Dangers of Segregation34Political Liberty in America36CARL SCHURZ38An Immigrant’s Tribute to Lincoln39“True Americanism”40EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN44An Immigrant’s Faith in Democracy45JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY52“The Exile of the Gael”52“The Pilgrim Fathers”54“Liberty Lighting the World”55“America”57HANS MATTSON58Scandinavian Contribution to American Nationality59JACOB RIIS61“A Young Man’s Hero”: An Immigrant’s Tribute to Roosevelt63JACOB VAN DER ZEE66“Why Dutch Emigrants Turned to America”67EDWARD BOK71OSCAR SOLOMON STRAUS72“America and the Spirit of American Judaism”73FELIX ADLER77The American Ideal78MARY ANTIN82An Immigrant’s Tribute to the Public School and to George Washington83“The Law of the Fathers”: A View of the Declaration of Independence89ABRAHAM MITRIE RIHBANY91America Offers Something Better than Money92An Immigrant Tells his Struggles with the English Language94EDWARD ALFRED STEINER96“The Criminal Immigrant”97Industrialism and the Immigrant105GEORGE A. GORDON111“The Foreign-born American Citizen”: Cost, Privilege and Duties of his Citizenship112SERAPHIM G. CANOUTAS121Americanization: Its Principles and Meaning123STEFANO MIELE125Some Obstacles to Americanization126JOHN KULAMER130“The American Spirit and Americanization”131ENRICO C. SARTORIO136Patronizing the Foreigner137Training for Citizenship140OTTO HERMANN KAHN143“Capital and Labor—A Fair Deal”144MARCUS ELI RAVAGE150The New Immigration151What College Life in the West Did for an Immigrant152ELIZABETH G. STERN160The Pathos of Readjustment161ROBERT M. WERNAER166“The Soul of America”167“We Must Be True”172ANGELO PATRI173An Immigrant and His Father174An Immigrant and the Children177ANZIA YEZIERSKA181“How I Found America”182