The names of John Gergen : immigrant identities in early twentieth-century St. Louis /
Benjamin Moore.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Soulard and its discontents (1903-1914) -- Sorting the Albecks (1909-1910) -- Becoming John Gergen (1910-1915) -- 916A Allen Avenue (1916-1920) -- "Have you a mother?" (1917-1918) -- Beyond the walk from home to school (1920-1926) -- Becoming John Albeck (1926-1930) -- "Our dear son, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, nephew, and cousin" (1930-1935) -- The forgetting (1935-1993).
"The Names of John Gergen examines the converging governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis in the early twentieth century"--