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• Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Cornelius J. Jaenen (PDF at University of Calgary)

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• A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri (c2010), by John Leigh Walters, contrib. by Zarah Petri (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Exile: A Memoir of 1939 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Bronka Schneider, ed. by Erika Bourguignon and Barbara Hill Rigney (PDF at Ohio State)

• Women and Migration(s) II (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), ed. by Kalia Brooks Nelson, Cheryl Finley, Ellyn Toscano, and Deborah Willis (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, and Kalia Brooks Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 (c2008), by Willeen G. Keough (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1994), by Donna R. Gabaccia (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India, by Sake Deen Mahomet, ed. by Michael H. Fisher (HTML at UC Press)

• Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Grace Aneiza Ali (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A History of Czechs (Bohemians) in Nebraska (Omaha: Czech Historical Society of Nebraska, 1929), by Rose Rosický
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • partial HTML at ancestry.com

• A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in the New York City Garment Industry (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), ed. by Daniel Soyer (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1997), by Daniel Soyer (multiple formats at Wayne State)

• The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1994), by Robert P. Swierenga (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Immigration (1987), by Ronald D. Dennis (HTML at BYU)

• Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by John McNelis O'Keefe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• U.S. Immigration Law and Policy, 1952-1979: A Report Prepared at the Request of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Upon the Formation of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy (Washington: GPO, 1979), by Joyce C. Vialet, contrib. by Edward M. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Masayo Duus, ed. by Peter Duus, trans. by Beth Cary (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Madre and I: A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2010), by Guillermo A. Reyes (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• A Daughter of the Samurai (originally published 1925; this edition Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Etsuko Sugimoto, contrib. by Christopher Morley, illust. by Ichiro Hori (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Nach Amerika! Ein Volksbuch (6 volumes in German; Leipzig: H. Costenoble; Berlin: R. Gaertner, 1855), by Friedrich Gerstäcker, illust. by Theodor Hosemann and Karl Reinhardt
  • Volume 1: Gutenberg multiple formats
  • Volume 2: Gutenberg multiple formats
  • Volume 3: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume 4: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume 5: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume 6: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• A Daughter of the Samurai (special edition pub. by Doubleday, Page and Co. for Japan Society; c1925), by Etsuko Sugimoto, contrib. by Christopher Morley, illust. by Ichiro Hori
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• From Plotzk to Boston (Boston: W. B. Clarke and Co., 1899), by Mary Antin, contrib. by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• The Promised Land (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912), by Mary Antin
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

• Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People (New York et al.: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Robert Zecker
  • PDF files with commentary at Bloomsbury Academic
  • PDF at OAPEN

• Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by John McNelis O'Keefe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Finding Directions West: Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canada's Past (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), ed. by George Colpitts and Heather Devine (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Views From Fort Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West (Edmonton: AU Press, 2008), by Walter Hildebrandt (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Cornelius J. Jaenen (PDF at University of Calgary)

• So Far and Yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by W. M. Elofson (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond (Edmonton: AU Press, c2020), ed. by Frank Stahnisch and Erna Kurbegović (multiple formats with commentary at AU Press)

• Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond (Edmonton: AU Press, c2020), ed. by Frank Stahnisch and Erna Kurbegović (multiple formats with commentary at AU Press)

• Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (c2011), ed. by Sarah Carter and Patricia Alice McCormack (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 (Edmonton: AU Press, 2008), by Sarah Carter (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (c2011), ed. by Sarah Carter and Patricia Alice McCormack (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 (Edmonton: AU Press, 2008), by Sarah Carter (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 (Edmonton: AU Press, 2008), by Sarah Carter (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 (Edmonton: AU Press, 2008), by Sarah Carter (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond (Edmonton: AU Press, c2020), ed. by Frank Stahnisch and Erna Kurbegović (multiple formats with commentary at AU Press)

• So Far and Yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by W. M. Elofson (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• So Far and Yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by W. M. Elofson (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus (PDF with commentary at AU Press)