Primary Source Spotlight: Immigration

Primary source sets

• Immigration: Challenges for New Americans (includes teacher guide)
• Mexican American Migrations and Communities (includes teacher guide)
• Immigration primary source iBook
• Immigration images
• Immigrants images
• The Emigrant’s Guide by William Cobbett 1830
• Advice and Guide to Emigrants by Patrick O’Kelly 1834
• More immigration books & texts
• Historical newspaper coverage: immigration problem
• Historical newspaper coverage: immigration benefits
• Immigration oral histories
• Vaudeville: immigration
• Ellis Island
• From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America (online exhibition)
• Chinese in California 1850-1925 Bancroft Library (click finding aid to browse/search for items)
• Law Library: immigration topics
• Songs of Immigration and Migration article, Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America
• Timely Connections: Immigrant Soldiers

Timelines

• Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1851-1900
• Immigrants in the Progressive Era
• Immigration to the United States, 1851-1900

Presentations

• Immigration
• Interviews with Today’s Immigrants
• The Portuguese in the United States
• The Germans in America
• The Luxembourgers in America
• The Slovaks in America

Webcasts

• Celtic Roots: Stories, Songs and Traditions From Across the Sea
• Haven to Home: An American Journey
• I’d Still be Puerto Rican, Even if Born on the Moon: Documenting Puerto Rican Migration & Community through the Arts

Primary Source Learning: Immigration lesson plans & teaching resources

More resources

• Immigration Pew Research Center
• The Roots of Our Immigration Crisis California History-Social Science Project
• Jacob Riis: Revealing “How the Other Half Lives” online exhibition
• Immigration and Naturalization Service history U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services