Saturday, October 23, 2010
This should help!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Immigration Project
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