Immigration

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Progressivism

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module15/index.html

Immigration History Research Center

http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/

FAIR U.S. Immigration History

http://www.fairus.org/html/immigrhistory.htm

The Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

http://www.ellisisland.org/Immexp/indexframe.asp?

Immigration at the Turn of the Century

http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Immigration/index.htm

Angel Island Research Center

http://www.sandiego-online.com/forums/chinese/htmls/angel.htm

Cato Institute and the National Immigration Forum (Demographic and Economic Facts)

http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-immig.html

On The Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/www/ctich/eastside/contents.html

Migration and Ethnic Relations Virtual Library

http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/alphabetical/index.html

Keystone-Mast Collection: New York, NY, Ellis Island – Immigration: 1900-1920

http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html

The History Channel – Ellis Island Exhibit

http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/exhibits/ellisisle/reopen.html

Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

http://www.aiisf.org/

Chinese Exclusion Act – Primary Source

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chinex.htm

American Social History Project – Immigrant Women in the Turn-of-the-Century City

http://web.gsuc.cuny.edu/ashp/heaven/index.html

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/

The German-Americans An Ethnic Experience

http://www-lib.iupui.edu/kade/adams/cover.html

The Germans in America

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germany.html

Pennsylvania German Society

http://www.pgs.org/

The Irish in America – Long Journey Home

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/irish/

The Great Potato Famine

http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SUA01/great_famine.html

American Jewish Historical Society Research Resources

http://www.ajhs.org/research/

Jewish American History on the Web

http://www.jewish-history.com/Default.htm

The Jewish American History Museum

http://www.jewishmuseum.org/home/

Swedish Emigration to America

http://www.americanwest.com/swedemigr/pages/emigra.htm

French Immigration to America

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAEfrance.htm

Italian Immigration

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm

Chinese Immigrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/china1.cfm

On the Trail of the Immigrant: Photo Album

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/photo_album/photo_album.html

The Statue of Liberty

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=346

New Immigrants

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=415

Japanese Immigration

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=417

Immigration Restrictions

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=421

The Stages of Migration 1880-1920

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=425

Why do people migrate? 1880-1920

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=431

Japanese Immigration

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Japanese.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0318

English Immigration

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/English.html

German Immigration

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/German.html

Italian Immigration

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Italian.html

Irish Immigration

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Irish.html

African Immigration

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/African.html

Chinese Immigration

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Chinese.html

Jewish Immigration

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Jewish.html

Primary Source Narratives of Ellis Island

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Past.html

History of Ellis Island

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Eihist.html

Symbolism of Ellis Island

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Eisym.html

History of the Statue of Liberty

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Sthist.html

Creation of the Statue of Liberty

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Stcrea.html

Symbolism of the Statue of Liberty

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Stcrea.html

Korean Immigration

http://www.koreancentennial.org/

Linking to the Past: Asian Americans Then and Now

http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/r000192.htm

Hispanic American Immigration

http://www2.worldbook.com/features/features.asp?feature=cinco&page=html/immigration.htm&direct=yes

Filipino Immigration

http://www.filipinoweb.com/articles.html

Center for Immigration Studies

http://www.cis.org/index.cgi

Scandinavian Emigration to North America

http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/nordic/Text/Emistory.htm

Russian Immigration

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAErussia.htm

Norwegian Immigration

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norway/na1.html

U.S. American Immigration History Resources

http://users.snowcrest.net/jmike/immigration.html

Immigration in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/bibs/immig.html

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Westward Expansion

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Westward Expansion

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module8/index.html

The American West

http://www.americanwest.com/

The Multicultural American West Web Resources

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/

The Library of Congress – History of the American West

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html

PBS – New Perspectives on The West

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/

Treasure Net Historical Image Collection

http://www.treasurenet.com/cgi-bin/treasure/images.pl/Search?search=%2bCategory%3a%22American%20West%22

Kansas University – The American West Resource Collection

http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/WEST/

History of the American West Online Resources

http://www.academicinfo.net/amwest.html

Ghost Towns

http://www.ghosttowns.com/

PBS – Frontier House

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/

Native American Conflicts and Wars

http://nativeamericanrhymes.com/library/conflicts/overview.htm

Battle of Little Bighorn

http://www.ibiscom.com/custer.htm

Buffalo Hunting

http://www.ibiscom.com/buffalo.htm

Stage Coaches

http://www.ibiscom.com/stage.htm

Crossing the Great Plains

http://www.ibiscom.com/stage.htm

The Apache Battles

http://www.ibiscom.com/apache.htm

The Death of Billy the Kid

http://www.ibiscom.com/billythekid.htm

A Cowboy in Dodge City

http://www.ibiscom.com/dodge.htm

Massacre at Wounded Knee

http://www.ibiscom.com/knee.htm

Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/four/sandcrk.htm

The Goodnight-Loving Trail

http://www.net.westhost.com/loving.shtml

Cowboy Hall of Fame

http://www.cowboyhalloffame.org/

Mining History

http://montanakids.com/db_engine/presentations/presentation.asp?pid=355&sub=Enter

Central Pacific Railroad

http://cprr.org/

Transcontinental Railroad

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rail.html

PBS – The Iron Road

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/iron/

Cowboys

http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/ThemeUnits/Cowboys/history.htm

Gold Rush Boom Towns

http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/klondike/case5.html

PBS – The Gold Rush

http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/

Logging Frontier

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/prehist/lumber/logging.html

The Northern Great Plains

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html

Dime Novels

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html

The Rise and Fall of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a "Parable on Populism"

http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm

Kansas University History of Populism

http://www.ku.edu/history/VL/USA/populism.html

Historiography of American Populism

http://history.smsu.edu/wrmiller/Populism/texts/historiography.htm

Populism in Cartoon

http://history.smsu.edu/wrmiller/Populism/texts/Introduction.htm

Inflation Calculator

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

CPI (Consumer Price Index) - Inflation Information

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm

U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.bls.gov/home.htm

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Industrialization and Reform

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Gilded Age

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module12/index.html

Laissez-Faire Capitalism

http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Index.html?http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Politics_LaissezFaire.html

PBS – Andrew Carnegie

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/

America’s Library – Andrew Carnegie

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/carnegie

Steel

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0026315.html

Bessemer Process

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0016421.html

Background of the Bessemer Process

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Bessemer_process

John D. Rockefeller Biography

http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/jdrsrbio.html

PBS  – The Rockefellers

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/

Milton Hershey

http://www.hersheytheatre.com/m1.html

Cornelius Vanderbilt

http://www.arvadesign.ca/narhf/nar99/NAR99awards_VAND.html

John Pierpont Morgan

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmorgan.htm

Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm

The Great Chicago Fire

http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html

Cornell University - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

Photographs from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/history/hsty3080/3rdYr3080/trianglewebsite/

NPR - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1416870

Davenport Library - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Sweatshops,  and Labor Reform

http://www.rbls.lib.il.us/dpl/ref/hist/hid/histhidtriangle.htm

The New Deal Network - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

http://newdeal.feri.org/library/d_4m.htm

Child Labor and Child Labor Reform

http://history.osu.edu/Projects/ChildLabor/default.html