Immigration Project

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Check out these websites

Suggested websites

Destination America (great starting point for ALL groups. This is an excellent resource to click through for stats, reasons for emigrating, etc)

http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim_wn.html

http://www.ny.com/articles/chinatown.html

Musuem of Chinese in America http://www.mocanyc.org/

Center for Jewish History http://www.cjh.org/

American Jewish Historical Society http://www.ajhs.org/

Lower East Side Tenement Museum http://www.tenement.org/

Ellis Island http://ellisisland.org

PBS’ The Jewish Americans http://www.pbs.org/jewishamericans/watch/index.html#1

(especially clips from Migration and Assimilation).

The Irish in America http://www.america.gov/st/peopleplace-english/2008/February/20080307131416ebyessedo0.6800043.html

Library of Congress: From Haven to Home http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/haven-century.html

Italian Immigration http://www.ailf.org/awards/benefit2004/ahp04essay.asp

Irish American Heritage Museum

http://www.irishamericanheritagemuseum.org/

New York Irish American Heritage Museum

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/NY/200003396.html

Background info from for most groups:

http://www.tenement.org/encyclopedia/irish.htm

http://www.tenement.org/encyclopedia/Jews.htm

http://www.tenement.org/encyclopedia/italians.htm

Immigration Project