Immigration Pathfinder
Ellis Island and Immigrant Web Sites:
History Channel - Ellis Island
http://www.history.com/minisites/ellisisland/
This web site provides a tour of Ellis Island, including a
timeline, photographs from the time period.
ThinkQuest - Ellis
Island
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Eihist.html
The different immigrant groups
that came to the United States are highlighted on this website. The site
also provides a virtual tour of Ellis Island.
Ellis Island - Immigrant
Experience
http://www.ellisisland.org/Immexp/index.asp
In the immigrant experience,
offers a timeline and personal stories from the perspective of six different
immigrant groups.
Castle Garden Database
http://www.castlegarden.org/
This Web site is a searchable
database collection of immigrants from 1830-1892.
Public Broad Cast -
Destination America
http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim.html
PBS web site offers the immigrant experience
including personal stories, the reasons why immigrants came to America, and
additional resources.
Ellis Island -
Searchable Passenger Data
http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp
This website provides a searchable database of
passengers who came through Ellis Island.
Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today Home
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm
This Scholastic Web site provides an interactive tour
of Ellis Island and other factual information.
Tenement Museum : Home | Thirteen/WNET New York
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/
This Web site from Channel thirteen provides an inside
view of tenement houses of the late 1800’s.
The Tenement Museum | Virtual Tour of the Tenement at 97 Orchard Street
http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html
The tenement house museum has provided a virtual tour of the
tenement house on 97 Orchard Street, on the Lower East Side.
Immigration Station History
http://www.aiisf.org/history
For immigrants coming from the Pacific Ocean, Angel
Island was an important gateway to the United States of America.
Cultural Web Sites:
Immigration Links
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/educators/workshop/european/wimmlink.html#chinese
This Library of Congress Web site offers links to the
second wave of American immigrants.
Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today Home
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm
Stories of Yesterday and Today, is a Scholastic site
that explores different immigration groups.
Who do you
think you are? Immigration in Indiana.
http://www.indianahistory.org/programming/immigration/
Although this one is from Indiana,
some of the links are valuable.
Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899- 1965
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes.html
Interesting website about immigration
by Sikhs to Calif.
Locke and
Walnut Grove: Havens for early Asian immigrants in California.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/locke/locke.htm
Information about Chinese and
Japanese immigrants to Calif.
Separate Lives,
Broken Dreams
http://www.naatanet.org/separatelivesbrokendreams/
A site about the Chinese Exclusion
Act of 1882. Includes speeches, cartoons, and government documents.
Becoming
American: the Chinese Experience
http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/
Read the stories of Chinese
immigrants, see a timeline and other resources can be found on this site.
The Chinese
in California
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html
Illustrates 19th and early
20th century Chinese immigrant life.
German
Americans in the Columbia River Basin
http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha/ga/
Tells the story of German American
immigrants who settled in Idaho, Oregon and Washington state.
Chronology : The Germans in America (European Reading Room, Library of
Congress) http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germchro.html
The German American experience in the United States is
explored.
The Highland
Clearances
http://www.theclearances.org/
The site tells the story of people
from Scotland who were evicted and who then came to the US and Canada in the
1800s