American Memory
The
Library of Congress has created an excellent site about American
immigrants, including the forced immigration of Africans. The history
includes the effect of the waves of immigrants on Native Americans. The
groups covered include Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, Chinese, Puerto Rican/Cuban, and Polish/Russian.
U.
S. Immigration
This
section of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook contains both
documents and links with regard to immigration into the
United States.
Views of the Famine
This
site includes dozens of articles from newspapers of the time about the
Irish Potato Famine of 1845-51, which sent so many people to seek
refuge in the United States. There is also the full text of a book
entitled NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY FROM OXFORD TO SKIBBEREEN DURING THE YEAR OF THE IRISH FAMINE BY LORD DUFFERIN AND THE HON. G. G. BOYLE.
American Jewish Immigration
The website
of the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art has a number
of brief histories of such topics as American Jewish
Immigration and the Oklahoma Jewish Experience as well as
a section on Holocaust Education.
Ellis Island
This
site features a timeline of immigration history that
shows the forces that brought people from all over the
world to America's shores. Another part of the site
offers six stories of Americans from different
backgrounds researching immigrant ancestry. Discovery of
distant family members gave each of these Americans new
insights into their families' pasts—and into
themselves.
American
West:European Emigration
This
section of the American West website focuses on Swedish emigration to
the United States as typical of the experience of various European
peoples.
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