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The Immigrant Experience
Family stories and a timeline from From the American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island.

Immigration
An introduction through the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress. The faces on the left side of the page are linked to information on a specific country.

Migrations in History
"This site [from the Smithsonian Institution] features the stories and artifacts of migration--what happens when people move, what they take with them, what they leave behind, and how they make their new place home."

Ethnic America
Information from the Digital History project at the University of Houston on many different groups of people who came to live in the U.S.

On the Trail of the Immigrant
A photo album based upon text and pictures from a book, On the Trail of the Immigrant by Edward A. Steiner, published in 1906.

Migration Information Source
Facts and analysis of current international migration and refugee trends.

Port of Entry: Immigration
Be a historical detective and search for clues to America's past by investigating photographs and eyewitness accounts of immigrant life in America.

Peopling North America
An historical overview of migratory movements, this tutorial focuses on diasporas to and within Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean from Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
"In every immigrant group, each generation finds a balance between the values and practices of its heritage, and the mores of its adopted country" This Web site is the companion to the PBS series of the same name.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
Primary source materials illustrating "nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California."

Separate Lives, Broken Dreams
The story of Chinese immigration from the National Asian American Telecommunications Association.

Irish Potato Famine
This very interesting interactive exhibit requires Flash player.

Word Factbook
Information and a map for every country in the world provided by the CIA.

 

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