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Immigration to America:

History portals, online exhibitions and other sites with primary documents.

Immigration
Feature presentation from the Library of Congress that teaches about the variety of immigrant experiences.

Chinese in California
Online exhibition from American Memory at the Library of Congress tells the history of this immigrant group from primary documents in their collections.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
This is a national historic site; the heart of the museum is the historic tenement, home to an estimated 7,000 people from over 20 nations between 1863 and 1935. Explore house on a virtual tour.

Immigration to the United States : 1739-1930:
This a special section of the Open Collection Project from Harvard University has primary sources on American immigration. Includes many types of published materials including books and pamphlets from various time periods.

Immigrant Voices from Digital History
Primary source documents that include the words and eyewitness accounts of immigrants are among the links on the is page from the web site, Digital History.

Huddled Masses
Also from Digital History, a detailed history of late 19th and early 20th century immigration, including definitions of key terms in the study of immigration.

Who Was Shut Out?
This page from the History Matters web site makes good use of census information.

Shut the Door
Contrasting page also from History Matters that presents an speech from the time period. See the links at the bottom of the page for links to additional sources with opposing points.

Americans in the Raw
This page is from eHistory, a web site from Ohio State University, using scholarly sources, statistics, and photographs to tell the history of American immigration.

U.S. Census Bureau: Historical Data
This is a project to gather together Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-1990.

United States Historical Census Data
The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.

Contemporary immigration

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Official government web site for those wishing to enter the U.S.

Immigration Statistics from Homeland Security

America.gov: Diversity
America.gov is the official web site for our Department of State; this page is devoted to the American's growing diversity.

League of Women Voters: Immigration Study
The League is an organization that seeks to educate voters and citizens on important issues in a non-partisan or neutral manner. This web page gathers together recent information about the immigration issue.

Organizations that promote diversity
Listing of web sites from organizations that provide statistics and support of diversity in America.

GENERAL HISTORY RESOURCES

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Suffield Middle School - Media Center Homepage

Immigration to America:

History portals, online exhibitions and other sites with primary documents.

Immigration Feature presentation from the Library of Congress that teaches about the variety of immigrant experiences.

Chinese in CaliforniaOnline exhibition from American Memory at the Library of Congress tells the history of this immigrant group from primary documents in their collections.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum This is a national historic site; the heart of the museum is the historic tenement, home to an estimated 7,000 people from over 20 nations between 1863 and 1935. Explore house on a virtual tour.

Immigration to the United States : 1739-1930: This a special section of the Open Collection Project from Harvard University has primary sources on American immigration. Includes many types of published materials including books and pamphlets from various time periods.

Immigrant Voices from Digital History Primary source documents that include the words and eyewitness accounts of immigrants are among the links on the is page from the web site, Digital History.

Huddled Masses Also from Digital History, a detailed history of late 19th and early 20th century immigration, including definitions of key terms in the study of immigration.

Who Was Shut Out?This page from the History Matters web site makes good use of census information.

Shut the Door Contrasting page also from History Matters that presents an speech from the time period. See the links at the bottom of the page for links to additional sources with opposing points.

Americans in the RawThis page is from eHistory, a web site from Ohio State University, using scholarly sources, statistics, and photographs to tell the history of American immigration.

U.S. Census Bureau: Historical Data This is a project to gather together Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-1990.