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National Immigration Law Center
The official site of the organization that is dedicated to protecting the rights of immigrants. Site provides services such as policy analysis and advocacy, litigation, trainings and conferences, and general information on current...
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U.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Get the facts directly from the United States government organization for immigration. This site also includes links to related news releases.
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Metrocosm: Here's Everyone Who's Immigrated to the u.s. Since 1820
America is referred to as a "melting pot". View how we attained this label using the following map that shows patterns of immigration from 1820-2013. Included are charts that show the immigration "waves" by country from 1820-2013.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Immigrant Felons and Deportation
Read a case study of a 63 year-old woman who was almost deported recently because of a felony she committed in 1998. An audio version of this story is also available.
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Urban Inst: The Health of Children in Immigrant Families
This is a report of the analysis of national survey data to gauge the well-being of immigrant children compared with children in native-born families. The authors examine different areas, including family income and environment, child...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Origins of the Progressive Era
Given broad categories that describe the major goals of the progressive movement and general information about selected issues of the late 1800's/early 1900's, students will categorize the issues according to corresponding progressive...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Global America
Comprehensive teaching unit on globalization's influences on the political and social structure of America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Includes a look at how immigration has affected a changing America. Contains video and...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Industrializing America
Comprehensive teaching unit that explores the "second industrial revolution" and the mass production of consumer goods. This, in turn, caused an increase in the labor force and immigration. Learn how these changes brought about the start...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia
This is a resource about the state of Utah. Includes images and articles on everything from geology to famous people in the state.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: The Immigration Debate
An excellent in-depth report from NPR that examines immigration issues in the United States today and its affect on America's economy. Delves into the debate Congress is having over proposed new immigration law.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Whose Land Is This? Webisode 8
From Joy Hakim's marvelous set of books, A History of US, this webisode offers narrative, pictures, and teaching guides for the settling of the West after the Civil War.
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Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21: The Ken Elliott Collection
Get a glimpse of the excitement and emotion, captured in pictures, as hundreds of new Canadians arrive at Pier 21 in 1965.
Canadian Museum of History
Cmc: The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada
Government claims to lands in Western Canada was one matter but maintaining sovereignty over these lands was quite another. Sir John A Macdonald's approach to maintaining sovereignty in western Canada by not losing the land to American...
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Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
The Angel Island Foundation provides a history of the Immigration Station that was in operation from 1910 to 1940. Find information on the journey across the Pacific and conditions upon arriving at the Station.
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Project Visa
A comprehensive internet resource guide to visa and embassy information for all countries around the world. Search by region or view the entire country list. Links to other travel, visa, and immigration sites.
Library of Congress
Loc: Matthew Brady
A look at the life of Matthew Brady, an Irish American who was a photographer in the Civil War.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: The Connected City: New York, New York 1920s
Exhibition highlights New York's harbor, with stories of the city as a hub of immigration, manufacturing, and culture.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: A Nation of Immigrants: Latino Stories
While in the year 2000 Latinos were the largest ethnic minority in the United States, their experiences are by no means the same. Explore stories of Latino immigration and migration and see some of the complexities of immigration.
CNN
Cnn en Espanol: Plan Inmigratorio: "Esto No Es Una Amnistia"
In Spanish. Article outlines the key components of President Obama's recent action plan on immigration.
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Sachem Central School District: Your History Site: The Muckrakers [Pdf]
Excerpts from the writings of Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Jacob Riis on early industrial America. Topics include the horrors that went into the making of sausages, the problem of transportation and the Standard Oil Company, and life...
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Protesters Rally Against Illegal Immigration Bill
May, 2006, coverage of a Chicago rally to protest legislation proposed in the House of Representatives that would strengthen border protection as the U.S. tries to halt illegal immigration. Video and photo slideshow of the protest...
University of Oregon
Mapping History: American History
Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in American history from pre-European times until post-World War II.
Ohio State University
Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
Stanford University
Stanford Magazine: Angel Island: Breaking the Silence
This article is about Katherine Toy, who is in charge of restoring the barracks at Angel Island. This story also discusses the plight of Chinese immigrants once they reach American shores and their poetry written on the walls of the...