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United States History - Primary Resources

Immigration

Ellis Island
Interviewing Newcomers

Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes.
New York: Macmillan, 1912.
Additional Resources--Immigration History
immigrationhistory.org
Africans in America
American Ancestors - New England Historic genealogical Society
Angel Island
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation - Poems and Inscriptions
Asian Nation
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Balch Institute Exhibits
Bikini Atoll
A Biography of America
Bogart, Ernest Ludlow. The Housing of the Working People in Yonkers.
New York: Published for the American Economic Association by the Macmillan Company, London: S. Sonnechen: c 1898
California's Anti-Coolie Act of 1862
California as I Saw It: First Person Narratives of California's Early Years 1849-1900
California Immigration Association Report on the Unlawful Occupation of Public Lands and Proposed Act of Congress Relating Thereto. November 1882
Caribbean Views: An Online Exhibition - British Library
Celtic Roots: Stories, Songs and Traditions from Across the Sea
Chicago City of the Century PBS
Chinatown Declared a Nuisance!
Chinatown PBS
Chinese-Americans 1785 -
Chinese Immigration Records
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Project
Convention for the Mutual Abolition of the Droit d'Aubaine and Taxes on Emigration Between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of Bavaria, January 21, 1845
Destination America PBS
Documenting "The Other Half" The Social Reform Photography of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
Ellis Island
Ellis Island Photographs from the Collection of William Williams Commissioner of Immigration 1902-1913
The Emmigration Museum, Ballinstadt, Hamburg
Eugenics Archive
Farnam, Henry W. summary of the Tenement House Investigation of 1902
[United States: s.n., 1902?]
France in America
Gadsden Purchase Treaty - Scans of Original Document
National Archives
Gadsden Purchase Treaty: December 30, 1853
The Avalon Project at Yale
German-American Diplomacy 1785 - 1847
The Avalon Project at Yale
The Germans in America - Chronology
H-Ethnic
Heaven will Protect the Working Girl: Immigrant Women in the Turn of the Century
Hidden histories: Indenture to Windrush
A History of Immigration Law Regarding People of Color
History of the Bering Land Bridge Theory
National Park Service
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis
How U.S. Immigration Laws and Rules Have Changed Through History
Pew Research
Hull-House Maps and Papers
New York: T.Y. crowell & Co., c1895
Hunter, Robert. Tenement Conditions in Chicago
Chicago: City Homes association, 1901
Immigrant Voices Primary Sources
Immigrant Women - Women's History Resources
Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History
Immigration Figures for 1903
Immigration History Research Center
Immigration Records National Archives
Passenger Arrival Records, 1800-1982 (with gaps)
Canadian Border Crossing Records, 1895-1954
Mexican Border Crossing Records, ca1903-ca.1955
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
India Office Records and Private Papers
Interpreting the Irish Famine, 1846-1850
The Irish American Experience
The Italians in Chicago
Washington, G.P.O., 1897
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)
Jews in America
Meeting of Frontiers: American, Russia, and the Meeting of Frontiers
Mexican Americans
Modern History Sourcebook: Scottish Immigration to the American Colonies, 1772
National Historical Geographic Information System
Naturalization Records
National Archives
New Beginnings: Immigrant Woman and the American Experience
Google Arts & Culture
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States and the American Frontier
Photographs of Ellis Island
Puerto Rican and Cuban Immigration
Samuel Bryan, "Mexican Immigrants in the United States." The Survey, 20. no. 23 (Septermber 1912)
Sayles, Mary Buell, Housing Conditions in Jersey City. Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 1903.
Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, ca. 1880-1920
The Story of Africa: Slavery
Sweatshops in America
The Tenement Museum
Timeline - Immigration History
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
The U.S. GenWeb Project
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services History
Views of the Famine
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
White Trash: The Construction of an American Scapegoat