Immigration History on the Web

Links:

• Angel Island includes the 1891 Quarantine Station and the 1910 Immigration Station and KQED history and Prologue article and 1917 book by Mary Bamford
• Becoming American: The Chinese Experience PBS documentary
• Border Patrol now under CBP
• Border Patrol Chronology from Rep. Duncan Hunter
• Border Patrol Museum
• Burlingame Treaty of 1868 text
• Castle Garden includes history and engravings
• Census Bureau includes 32 million foreign-born
• Center for Immigration Studies
• Clipper Ship Museum
• Department of Homeland Security includes since March 1, 2003, includes new Immigration & Borders agencies: theU. S, Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and U. S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• Ellis Island includes immigration museum and the American Immigrant Wall of Honor and Family Immigration History Center and The Immigrant Experience with the Peopling of America timeline.
• Federal Immigration Laws from UMD includes the Maryland Assembly "Act Relating to the Importation of Passengers" of March 22, 1833.
• Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) includes research section with U.S. Immigration History
• Immigration Through Time
• Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement from the Eugenics Record Office 1910-40 and the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Immigrant arrivals: a photo history
• Immigration Through Time from Thinkquest
• USCIS (formerly the INS) History and Border Patrol and Immigration history of the Mexican border
• Irish Potato Famine from Liz Szabo
• Living Room Candidate TV ads 1952 to the present from the American Museum of the Moving Image
• Myth of the Melting Pot series of articles from the Washington Post
• NumbersUSA overpopulation site
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration and Refugee Services has aComprehensive Immigration Reform statement reflecting the views of the U.S. Catholic Bishops.
• Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802-1940 from Prologue

Articles:

• Opium War Statue in New York, NYT Nov. 20, 1997
• Foreign Workers at Highest Level in Seven Decades, NYT, Sept. 4, 2000
• The New Face Of America, CBS News Dec. 3, 2000
• Immigration March Draws 500,000 in LA, AP, Mar. 25, 2006
• Thousands rally for immigrants' rights, Dallas Morning News, Mar. 24, 2006
• Spanish 'Star-Spangled Banner' draws ire, AP Apr. 28, 2006

Pictures:

• Immigration Photos 1
• Immigration Charts 2
• Immigration Photos 3

Books:

• Chan, Sucheng, ed. Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. 286 p. ; 25 cm. Series Asian American history and culture. Note Includes bibliographical references Subject Chinese Americans -- History Chinese Americans -- California -- History Immigrants -- United States -- History Immigrants -- California -- History Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History California -- Race relations. LRC Reading Room E184.C5 E58 1990
• Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1988. 384 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography: p. 345-372 and index Subject Asian Americans -- History Chinese Americans -- History Japanese Americans -- History. CL Book Stacks 973.0495 D186a
• Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: a history of immigration and ethnicity in American life. 2nd ed. New York: Perennial, 2002. 515 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-491) and index Subject Ethnology -- United States -- History Minorities -- United States -- History Immigrants -- United States -- History United States -- Ethnic relations United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History. Copley Library 1 copy ordered -- SSH Stacks E184.A1 D26 2002
• Dinnerstein, Leonard and David M. Reimers. Ethnic Americans: a history of immigration. 4th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 250 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index. Subject Ethnology -- United States Americanization Immigrants -- United States -- History United States -- Ethnic relations United States -- Emigration and immigration. CL Book Stacks E184.A1 D48 1999
• Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of Empire: a history of Latinos in America. New York : Viking, 2000. 346 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-324) and index. Subject Hispanic Americans -- History Immigrants -- United States -- History United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- History United States -- Relations -- Latin America Latin America -- Relations -- United States United States -- Territorial expansion -- History United States -- Ethnic relations. CL Book Stacks E184.S75 G655 2000
• Hooglund, Eric J., ed. Crossing the Waters: Arabic-speaking immigrants to the United States before 1940. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Bibliography: p. 187-188 Subject Arab Americans -- History Immigrants -- United States -- History. CL Book Stacks 973.04927 C951
• Miscevic, Dusanka D. Chinese Americans: the immigrant experience. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 2000. 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 34 cm. Includes index Subject Chinese Americans -- History Chinese Americans -- Pictorial works. CL Oversize Bks. E184.C5 M57 2000
• Tsai, Shih-shan Henry. The Chinese Experience in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. 223 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series Minorities in modern America. Bibliography: p. 214-219 nd index. Subject Chinese Americans -- History. 3rd Floor Books E184.C5 T833 1986

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