- American Memory: The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
Illustrates Chinese immigration to California from 1850 to 1925 through photographs, cartoons, letters, diaries, business records, and legal documents.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml
- American West: European Emigration
www.americanwest.com/swedemigr/pages/emigra.htm
- Ancestors in the Americas
Companion site to the PBS series about Asian immigrants to the Americas. Site includes historical documents, timelines, and genealogy resources.
www.cetel.org
- Chinese Exclusion Acts (10)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Immigration/Chinese_Exclusion_Acts
- Cuban Rafter Phenomenon, The
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Explores the experiences of tens of thousands of citizens who have left Cuba, with an emphasis on the raft crisis of 1994.
balseros.miami.edu
- Danish Immigrant Museum
Seeks to tell the story of Danish immigrants and the Danish American experience, as well as collect, preserve, study, and interpret their materials, culture, and traditions.
www.netins.net/showcase/dkmuseum
- Dunbrody: Ireland's Historic Emigrant Ship
Replica of the Dunbrody, which carried many emigrants from Ireland to the New World from 1845 to 1870. Includes history, information on tours, and photographs.
www.dunbrody.com
- Ellis Island (7)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Immigration/Ellis_Island
- Immigration History Research Center (IHRC)
Resource on American immigration and ethnic history. Located at the University of Minnesota.
www1.umn.edu/ihrc
- Immigration in the Guilded Age and Progressive Era
From Humanities & Social Sciences Online, by Donna R. Gabaccia.
h-net2.msu.edu/~shgape/bibs/immig.html
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Features articles, photographs, maps, and historic documents devoted to the migrations that have formed and transformed our nation.
www.inmotionaame.org
- New Americans, The
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PBS project presenting immigrant experiences, an interactive timeline, perceptions and misconceptions, a list of notable immigrants, and a teacher guide.
www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans
- Nordic Heritage Museum
Honors the legacy of immigrants from the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
www.nordicmuseum.com
- One Thousand Children (OTC)
Nonprofit corporation dedicated to documenting the experiences of people who came to the U.S. as children between 1934 and 1945 in order to escape persecution and genocide.
www.onethousandchildren.org
- Operation Pedro Pan (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Immigration/Operation_Pedro_Pan
- Poetic Waves: Angel Island
Interactive exhibit documenting the Asian immigration to the U.S. between 1910 and 1940.
www.poeticwaves.net
- Roots in the Sand
Multi-generational portrait of pioneering Punjabi-Mexican families who settled, a century ago, in Southern California's Imperial Valley.
www.pbs.org/rootsinthesand
- Steamship T.S.S. Nea Hellas
This Greek ocean liner brought tens of thousands of Greek immigrants to the U.S.
members.aol.com/neahellas/nea_ellas.html
- Urban Experience In Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
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Documents the life and times of Jane Addams, the history of the social Settlement House Movement and of Hull-House, and the history of Chicago's Near West Side neighborhood and its immigrant communities.
www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/contents.htm
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