Ellis Island
- This outstanding site from The History Channel re-enacts the immigration
process. Students use an on-line tour of the processing center to relive
immigration, with audio and video segments to add to the experience. Students
choose a place of origin and follow their fate.
Ellis Island - This is the home page
for the museum on Ellis Island, which offers general information about the
famous immigrant processing center. Students can search the Wall of Honor for
relatives or see basic information about the museum.
Study Ellis Island - This
commercial site provides links to sites containing media and images about
immigration.
Ellis Island –
Through America's Gateway - Created by the International Channel, this
site provides a great deal of information about the journey of immigrants and
their processing, including a cookbook and a variety of sound files of actual
immigrants. Headphones or speakers are a must!
Lower East Side Tenement Museum -
Created by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, this site contains a brief
history of immigration, information about living conditions in the tenements of
New York City, and a photo gallery.
Creating American Jews
- From the National Museum of American Jewish History, this site contains a
brief section on Jewish immigration to the United States.
Chinese Immigration
Chinese Immigration to the United States - This site from the Library
of Congress provides some primary source material about Chinese immigration to
the United States and the reactions these immigrants met here.
Angel Island, Immigrant Journeys from
Chinese Americans - This is a private site that contains some oral
history concerning the experience of Chinese immigrants at the Angel Island
Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay.
Angel Island, The Pacific Gateway - Created
by the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, this site covers a few
topics concerning Chinese immigration, including the interrogation of
immigrants detained on the island and poetry written by them.
Cinco de Mayo - World Book offers this site as a celebration of
Mexican heritage. In the Hispanic Americans section, an overview of Mexican
immigration to the United States is available. The text-based site is divided
into subtopics, including immigration in the early 1900s.
History of the
Mexican Revolution 1910–1920 - This site from the University of
California at San Diego contains a brief discussion of the Mexican Revolution,
the effect it had on Mexican immigration to the United States, and the
resulting U.S. restrictions placed on immigrants.
