Here, you will find lesson plans through which learners research, study, and discuss the problems faced by Irish immigrants during the 19th century. Provides bibliographies, as well as effective strategies for studying Irish culture and...

This site gives insight into what life was like for Irish immigrants who came to America during the 19th century.

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, view the reactions of citizens from Lewiston, Maine as Somali immigrants settle in their community. [9:39]

Shannon O'Neil, Latin American studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. answers questions posed by PBS about Mexico's President Felipe Calderon's visit to the United States. The Q & A covers a range of issues from...

Syllabus: Week 9: The 1965 Hart-Celler Act and the Remaking of Immigrant America. Syllabus: Week 10: Refugee and Asylum Policy, and Syllabus Week 11: How Globalization Produces Migration: Immigration Law, Economic Policy, and Global...

This instructional activity is designed to be taught after an introduction to immigration history or as a culminating activity. This is a hands-on, technology-based instructional activity that relates a student's individual immigration...

Explore the links among population growth, immigration, environment and support of the elderly in America. Conduct a role play and explore the options available to tackle problems caused by deomgraphic trends.

Includes key personalities among German immigrants, main trends, and suggestions for further reading.

This site provides a brief account of Brigham Young and his Mormon followers as they settled in the Great Salt Lake Valley.

Read about the bizarre ideas of those who believed in the role of eugenics in society. Find out about "bad" heredity and "good" heredity and see the form from the Eugenics Society of America that determined the "fitness" of individual...

A detailed unit plan on liberty and the role the Statue of Liberty has played in America. Six lessons are completely described including making a classroom model of the statue, creating a timeline, and analyzing a poem.

The Wessels Living History Farm of York County, Nebraska, offers a look at what it was like to live on a Great Plains farm in the 1920s. The farm's attractive and well organized website includes interviews with people who remember life...

Four nineteenth-century landscape paintings that suggest the meaning of the West in American life.

An excerpt from Abraham Cahan's novel, "Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto," and Charles Chesnutt's short story, "The Wife of His Youth," that describe challenges of assimilation into American culture for both European immigrants and...

A thumbnail look at the many things occurring in the United States in the last half half of the 19th century. The topics covered are Gilded Age Politics, the "New Imperialism," Industrial America, Growth of Labor, Urbanization,...

Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Garifuna Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)

This extensive learning module examines how the United States' efforts to increase foreign trade, add new territory, and isolate itself from Europe affected its foreign policy and other initiatives. It investigates how advances in...

Two short stories from Polish immigrant, Anzia Yerzierska, about the challenges of Americanization that immigrants faced in the early-twentieth century. Includes questions for discussion.