English C1000 - Davis - Culture and Immigration: Websites

Documenting voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression.

Best of History Web Sites, created by EdTechTeacher, is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites.

Provides statistics on annual immigration flows from the Department of Homeland Security, and data from the decennial census, the Current Population Surveys, and the American Community Survey.

The New York Public Library's digital collection of photographs of immigrants taken at Ellis Island.

Search your family history through census records, military service records, immigration records, naturalization records, and more.

Bill Moyers Journal is a blog that covers an array of current affairs and human issues, including economics, history, literature, religion, philosophy, science, and most frequently politics.

NPR provides a curated list of articles on the immigration debate in the U.S.

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization that provides reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.

Provides free online access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

From 1910 to 1940, tens of thousands of immigrants entered the West Coast of the United States through the Angel Island Immigration Station. Pacific Link details the experience of the immigrants.

At the UCSB Library. CEMA includes several collections related to African American history and culture, which you can view by visiting UCSB.

University of California: Includes over 150,000 digitized primary sources.

Allows visitors to search for Ellis Island passengers by name.

Castle Garden Emigrant Depot was America's first facility dedicated entirely to the welfare of immigrants coming to America. The facility opened to the public on August 3rd, 1855, and closed on April 30th, 1890. Their website provides a detailed history of Castle Garden.

From the United States Census Bureau. View charts showing trends for key migration, access data collected by the Census Bureau, and learn about American Community Survey migration flows.

Census QuickFacts is an easy-to-use U.S. Census Bureau tool that provides frequently requested data about population, businesses, and geography for the nation, states, counties, and cities with populations over 5,000.

Because Buffalo was a major transportation hub in the 19th century and early 20th century, immigrants and their families made up a large and growing portion of the population. This component of the online exhibit is limited to addressing four of the larger immigrant communities existing in Buffalo at the time of the Pan-American Exposition: German, Italian, Polish and Irish.

Documents the history of African-American migration, including the early African diaspora, the first generations in America, and the great migration.

From the Library of Congress, this resource documents African immigration and relocation.

The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California pursues, preserves and communicates history, and promotes the heritage of the Chinese and Chinese American community.

From the Library of Congress, documents Chinese immigration and relocation.

From the National Archives, documents how the U.S. attempted to curtail immigration from China and the exclusionary legislation that followed.

Details the German, Italian, Polish, and Irish settlements of Buffalo in 1901.

From the Smithsonian Learning Lab, provides materials for teaching about Hispanic heritage.

Details the German, Italian, Polish, and Irish settlements of Buffalo in 1901.

From the Library of Congress, documents Italian immigration and relocation.

Details the German, Italian, Polish, and Irish settlements of Buffalo in 1901.

Densho documents the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished.

The Japanese American National Museum promotes understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity of the Japanese American experience.

From the Library of Congress, provides a collection of photographs taken by Ansel Adams in 1943 documenting the internment of Japanese Americans at Manzanar War Relocation Center.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara is dedicated to building a vibrant and inclusive local Jewish community.

From Haven to Home is a Library of Congress exhibition marking 350 years of Jewish life in America.

Established in 1892, the American Jewish Historical Society provides access to more than 30 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and artifacts that reflect the history of the Jewish presence in the United States from 1654 to the present.

Details the German, Italian, Polish, and Irish settlements of Buffalo in 1901.

Provides an overview of immigration from Vietnam to the United States.

Documents how a group of California college students have worked with Vietnamese immigrants to provide oral storytelling about their experiences.