Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Familiar Stranger: Learning English through History is the program developed by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the University Settlement to provide English-As-A-Second Language course to new immigrants. Using curriculum based on the diaries, letters, oral histories and other documents left by earlier immigrants, today’s newcomers will become fluent in English while drawing strength and inspiration from those who came before. The program also offers a connection to social services provided by the University Settlement House, including job training, job placement, counseling and child care. *Awarded under Museum Leadership Initiatives program - now part of National Leadership Grants for Museums