IMMIGRATION INFO
Check out the links below for more information...it might spark some ideas for additional credit pieces in your history packets. Be sure to look at the AC suggestions/questions for this unit.
BACKGROUND
- definitions of immigration and emigration
- The Library of Congress's site for immigration history and resources
- An overview of immigration to North American at Thinkquest.org
- British resource on emigration from Europe to America
- Statistics on peaks and wave in American immigration
- More statistics on American immigration based on info from the Immigration & Naturalization Service
- The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services site (part of the Department of Homeland Security)
- This site is a little funky--the links work, but need to be edited
IMMIGRATION BY ETHNIC GROUP
- Jewish immigration to the U.S. at the Jewish Virtual Library
- A brief history, timeline, and photographs of Indian immigration to the U.S. at several sites--check out the right-hand links at SikhPioneers.com
- Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans by Karen Isaksen Leonard and Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Elizabeth M. Collingham
- Who were the Mexican Hindu?? And what would their food taste like?
- Multimedia resources on German immigration at the Library of Congress
- The Irish Immigration Center in Massachusetts--a modern organization for Irish immigrants
- Irish immigration to the Hudson Valley
- Google search on German immigration
- "The Great American Potluck" interactive recipe book at the Library of Congress
ETHNIC HISTORY & GENEALOGY
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor T. Archdeacon's course outline on ethnicity in America (maps available)
- Tips on finding passenger lists and immigration records for genealogy
- Immigration records (with images) at the National Archives--scroll to the bottom to see more lists and info about the Titanic!
IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES
- "Interviews with Today's Immigrants" interactive project at the Library of Congress
ELLIS ISLAND & ANGEL ISLAND
- "Gateway to Dreams" Webquest activity
- Info about immigration at Angel Island
- "Port of Entry: Immigration" interactive exhibit at the Library of Congress