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Orth, Samuel P.

"Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making"

It contains a number
of chapters on the population at the time of the First Census in 1790.
John R. Commons, _Races and Immigrants in America_ (1907).
Prescott F. Hall, _Immigration and its Effects upon the United States_
(1906).
Henry P. Fairchild, _Immigration, a World Movement and its American
Significance_ (1913). A good historical survey of immigration as well
as a suggestive discussion of its sociological and economic bearings.
Jeremiah W. Jenks and W. Jett Lauck, _The Immigration Problem_ (1913).
A summary of the Report of the Immigration Commission.
Peter Roberts, _The New Immigration_ (1912). A discussion of the
recent influx from Southeastern Europe.
E.A. Ross, _The Old World in the New_ (1914) contains some refreshing
racial characteristics.
Richmond Mayo-Smith, _Emigration and Immigration_ (1890). This is one
of the oldest American works on the subject and remains the best
scientific discussion of the sociological and economic aspects of
immigration.
Edward A. Steiner, _On the Trail of the Immigrant_ (1906). A popular
and sympathetic account of the new immigration.

THE NEGRO
B.G. Brawley, _A Short History of the American Negro_ (1913).
W.E.B. Du Bois, _The Negro_ (1915). A small well-written volume, with
a useful bibliography and an illuminating chapter on the negro in the
United States; also, by the same author, _Suppression of the African
Slave Trade_ (1896).


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