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My mother's shoes tell the whole story...
One daughter finds the story of her family's journey to America in the worn soles and frayed seams of her mother's shoes. A grandson finds his story in the grafitti etched in a marble column by his grandfather's hand. These are the stories to be found in the Immigrant History Museum on Ellis Island, the site for a Documentary Research field trip on Friday, September 16, 2005. Forty students from Documentary Research spent the day on Ellis Island, together with Professors McEwan, Ranieri, Tafler and Taub. The field trip offered students an opportunity to explore issues of identity and immigration, as part of the links to the Center for Ethics programming on "The Politics and Ethics of Identity." This semester, each student will produce a digital story documenting some aspect of identity. The trip to Ellis Island helped generate ideas and possibilities for their projects. Rachel Cohen was among a small group of students who located documents related to her own family history. All experienced first hand the range of documentary images, voices, and artifacts that collectively tell the stories of immigration in the United States. Funding from the Dean of Students helped make this exciting trip possible.
Field Trips
