American Immigration Coming to Ameria

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Sources must be credible and authoritative.  Universities, educational sites, museums, historical societies, etc., are good choices.  K-12 schools, blogs and Q&A sites are not.  Bad sources = Lower grades.

Comprehensive Information:

Gale Reference Library (Paid Database). Three great E-books:

U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library

American Decades

Industrial Revoluation

Library of Congress -- the best on the Web. Navigate through the themes to find primary source information. 

LOC's Immigration Presentation - Specific info on immigrants to the U.S.

Grolier Online (Paid Database). Multimedia Encyclopedia has articles and links.

Kingwood College Library Timeline  - historic events, political issues, government policies, arts and items of national importance from the 19th and 20th Centuries.

 Ellis Island exhibit from The History Channel.

 EyeWitness to History First-person accounts throughout history

fairus.org immigration statistics

Tenement Housing:

http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/ Interactive, multimedia essays about New York and Chicago from 1870s-1930s, created by the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham.

http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html  the Lower East Side Tenement Museum provides virtual tours of apartments from the mid/late 19^th Century.

http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/contents.htm Hull House: The Urban Experience in Chicago 1889-1963.

Working Conditions – Men:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html Inside an American Factory 1904 movie.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/history.htm History of the Sweatshops from Smithsonian Institution.

Working Conditions – Women:

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/ Harvard University Library’s online collection of historical manuscripts, photos and pamphlets about women in the workplace.

http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/ American Antiquarian Society’s collection on women’s work.

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ The Triangle Factory Fire from Cornell University.

Working Conditions – Children:

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html Child Labor photos and commentary by famed photographer Lewis W. Hine.

http://www.msha.gov/KIDS/DIRTY/DIRTY.HTM Photo essay, “Dirty Children” from the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s archives.

Society and Culture:

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ Advertisements from 1850-1920, compiled by Duke University.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html American sheet music and lyrics from the time period.

http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/ Godey’s Lady’s Book Online, from the U of R, is the premier example of high society in the 1850’s.

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/metlives/index2.html Artwork from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on ethnic neighborhoods. Click on the painting to enter the collection!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/index.html From PBS, this site explores the innovations and innventors that revolutionized society.

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM001-ELLISISLAND.htm  photo images of Ellis Island.

Specific Ethnic Groups and Regions: 

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/exhibits/panam/immigrants/immigrants.html Immigrant settlements in Buffalo; excellent for local German, Italian, Polish and Irish resources!

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html California As I Saw It, First-person narratives from the state’s early years 1849-1900.

http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/first.htm Women's Suffrage Movement biographical information on Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and more.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/wworld/es_antebellum.html PBS site on women in antebellum U.S.

http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/great_hunger/great_hunger_ch1.htm Irish Potato Famine webquest with tons of links

http://www.yivoinstitute.org/exhibits/amerpix.htm  The Jewish Immigrant Experience

http://www.angel-island.com/intro.html  Immigrant journeys of Chinese Americans

http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/etfss.html Croatia

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