http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/nyregion/14annie.html?hp&ex=1158292800&en=36d16ca9eaf747f6&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Article on Annie Moore, the first immigrant to land at Ellis Island. The article explores the myths and realities of her story.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html
This is a great interactive map that showed up today in the NY Times. You an select an immigrant group to see where they have settled in the US. Slide the time line and you can see settlement patterns from 1880 to the present.
www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/immigration/
Many wonderful documents here on the National Archives site related to all areas of immigration.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/politics/21family.html?_r=1
Nation’s Many Faces in Extended First Family
A really fascinating article on the genealogy of our new first family
www.monh.org/Default.aspx
Ellis Island photography exhibit at National Heritage Museum in Lexington
www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island.asp
Ellis Island resources
www.primarysource.org/resources/links.php
Great immigration sites assembled by Primary Source
http://www.tenement.org
Lower East Side Tenement Museum in NYC
German immigrants in Wisconsin from NPR
Fascinating story about German immigrants and a historic view of assimilation and bilingual education.
http://immigrationtah.pbworks.com/f/immigrant+children.pdf
Report on children of immigrants in America
Comments (1)
Fabiana Vasconcelos Abrams said
at 10:29 pm on Dec 11, 2008
I think the Tenement Museum could added here as a resource.
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