Maxine Schwartz Seller: To Seek America: A History of Ethnic Life in the United States, 1988. Chapters 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 , 13.
Kompendium 'NORAM2501 The American Immigrant Society' (fås kjøpt på Kopiutsaglet, Akadmika). Vær oppmerksom på at kompendiet er endret fra høsten 2003, så pass på å kjøpe kompendiet som er laget for høsten 2004. Kompendiet inneholder følgende artikler:
- Abraham Cahan "A Greenhorn No Longer"
- Knut Djupedal. Daniel Berstad and Norwegian Labor Migration in the 1920's. MS, 1994. 10 s.
- Oscar Handlin: "A Classic Essay in Immigrant History"
- Marcus Lee Hansen: "The Problem of the Third Generation"
- Stanley Lieberson & Mary C. Waters: "The Ethnic and Racial Composition of the United States"
- Odd S. Lovoll: "The Changing Role of May 17 as a Norwegian-American 'Key Symbol'"
- Odd S. Lovoll: "The Creation of Historical Memory in a Multicultural Society"
- Odd S. Lovoll: "Norwegian Chicago"
- Odd S. Lovoll: "A Legacy of National Mutuality"
- Luther S. Luedtke. ”Introduction”. in Making America. The Society and Culture of the Untied States. ed. Luther S. Luedtke (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1992). ss. 1-33.
- Arthur Mann. “From Immigration and Acculturation”. in Making America. The Society and Culture of the Untied States. ed. Luther S. Luedtke (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1992). ss. 68-82.
- Vilhelm Moberg: "A Cargo of Dreams"
- Jacob A. Riis: "Editors introduction", "The Bend" and "The Problem of the Children"
- O.E.Rølvaag: "The Power of Evil in High Places"
- Alexis de Tocqueville: "Origin of the Anglo-Americans"
- Solveig Zempel: "A Single Woman in Illinois"
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