UC Historian Edits Volume of Letters Written by Irish Immigrants
May 11, 2003
In the years prior to 1815, some 400,000 Irish ventured across the Atlantic to America. UC professor of history emeritus Arnold Schrier and some colleagues have spent years exploring archives, private collections and attic trunks to gather up more than 5,000 letters to tell these early stories of immigration. The researchers' work has just been published in a 788-page scholarly endeavor that took nearly 20 years of work and painstaking research.