Web Resources
Featured Resources
- American History - Immigration
- Multiple resources. Directory by Middletown Thrall Library.
- Immigration
- Multiple resources. Directory by Middletown Thrall Library.
Other Resources
- Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
- "From 1910 to 1940, Angel Island was the site of an Immigration Station that functioned as the West Coast equivalent of Ellis Island, although the Angel Island facility also enforced policies designed to exclude, rather than welcome, many Pacific Coast immigrants coming from eighty two countries." Includes history, curricula, immigrant stories, and a photo gallery.
- A Brief Passage in U.S. Immigration History
- A blog from the New York Public Library featuring primary documents in its collections.
- Eastern European Immigrants in the United States
- From the Jewish Womens Archive Encyclopedia.
- Ellis Island
- From the National Park Service.
- Ellis Island History
- From the Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation.
- Ellis Island Passenger Search Database
- "Welcome to our free Ellis Island Passenger Search database, home to 65 million records of passengers arriving to the Port of New York from 1820 to 1957."
- How U.S. Immigration Laws and Rules Have Changed Through History
- From the Pew Research Center.
- Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History
- "This feature presentation links educators to primary sources from the Library of Congress' online collections... and focuses only on the immigrant groups that arrived in greatest numbers during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The presentation was shaped by the primary sources available in the Library's online collections." Includes Native American, African, German, Irish, Scandinavian, Italian Japanese, Mexican, Chinese, Cuban/Puerto Rican and Polish/Russian. Each topic includes a timeline. The thumbnail photos on the left hand side of the page navigate to the various groups' information. From the Library of Congress.
- Irish and German Immigration
- From The Independence Hall Association
- Interactive Tour of Elllis Island
- From Scholastic.
- Resource Library: United States Immigration
- Activities; Articles; Maps; Lessons and Photographs. From National Geographic.
- The Rush of Immigrants
- From The Independence Hall.
- Trends in Migraton to the U.S.
- Historical overview up to 2014. From the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).
