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A word about free search engines:  If you Google the word "immigration," you get 150,000,000 hits -- only a fraction of which would apply to this project.  Use Wikipedia only for background info.  It is not recognized as credible source by universities, so do not site it for this project.  

Comprehensive Information:

Gale Reference Library (Paid Database). Our new database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. 

Facts on File (Paid Database.) Select the Modern World History online.

Grolier Online (Paid Database).  The Encyclopedia Americana is excellent for this type of research.

Library of Congress -- the best on the Web.  This page explains how to navigate this excellent site. Select a country of origin by scanning down the left side column of photos. Use the “Next” button on the bottom right to continue with that nationality’s profile.

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.

 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html First-person accounts throughout history

fairus.org immigration statistics

Tenement Housing:

http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html Primary Source document, “How the Other Half Lives: Study of the Tenements of New York,” written in 1890.

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.

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