John Fiske, Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, 2 vols. (1899).  The story of “The Migration of the Sects” is charmingly told.

John B. McMaster, History of the People of the United States, 8 vols. (1883-1913).  Scattered throughout the eight volumes are copious accounts of the coming of immigrants, from the year of American independence to the Civil War.  The great German and Irish inundations are dealt with in volumes VI and VII.

J.H.  Latane, America as a World Power (1907).  Chapter XVII gives a concise summary of immigration for the years 1880-1907.

WORKS ON IMMIGRATION

Reports of the Immigration Commission, appointed under the Congressional Act of Feb. 20, 1907. 42 vols. (1911).  This is by far the most exhaustive study that has been made of the immigration question.  It embraces a wide range of details, especially upon the economic and sociological aspects of the problem.

Census Bureau, A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790-1900 (1909).  The best analysis of the population of the United States.  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).

Carter G. Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration (1918).

J.R.  Spears, The American Slave Trade (1900).