CENTER FOR THE TEACHING OF AMERICAN HISTORY
SUMMER WORKSHOP



"Immigration: Shaping the American People"


MASTER LIST OF WEB RESOURCES

Slave trade

Slave Cargo diagram
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6802

The Middle Passage
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6372

Various accounts of slave ships
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASships.htm

Virginia Slave Experiences, 1724
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6521

Indentured servitude

Leaving London for Virginia, 1774
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6229

William Moraley, 1729
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6229

Philadelphia, 1750
historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5712

Maryland, 1756
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5796

Virginia, 1623
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6475

New England and Mid-Atlantic

Winslow on Pilgrim Life, 1621
http://www.nationalcenter.org/Pilgrims.html

Reasons for Puritan Migration
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=200

Ben Franklin on why immigrants should come to America
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=233

Massachusetts Bay, 1631
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5787

Southern colonies

Ogelthorpe on South Carolina, 1732
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/oglethorpe/oglethorpe.html

Settlement of Jamestown, 1624
http://www.nationalcenter.org/SettlementofJamestown.html

Life in early Virginia
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=214

South Carolina 1682
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6384

South and west

Cabeza de Vaca in Texas
http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/swwc/cdv/book/38.html

1680 Pueblo Revolt
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6527

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/mexican_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=24

Spanish exploration and colonization in California
http://anza.uoregon.edu/

The Requirement: A Spanish declaration to native populations
http://users.dickinson.edu/~borges/Resources-Requerimiento.htm

Descriptions of California Missions
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/native_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=22

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/mexican_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=25

Native experiences

Smallpox images
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/peoples/images/disease.html

Pilgrims from an Indian Perspective
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/native_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=72

Black Hawk Remembers
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5817

Lower Mississippi 1765
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6626

An Algonquian considers the French colonists
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5828

The Dutch arrive on Manhattan: An Indian Perspective
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5829

"Old" and "New" Immigration in the Nineteenth-Century

Immigration Timeline:
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/dates.html

Dictionary:
http://dictionary.reference.com/

Image Search Engine:
http://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

Immigration Newspaper Archive:
http://www.immigrationarchive.com/Home.aspx

Immigration Debate Links:
http://www.crf-usa.org/immigration/immigration_history.htm

Nativism

Our Misery and Despair! a labor leader attacks Chinese immigration:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5046/

From Harvard University Librarys Open Collections Program, a collection of documents concerning anti-Chinese sentiment:
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/themes-exclusion.html

From History Matters: post-1924 immigration quotas:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5078

From History Matters: Japan responds to 1924 law:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5077

From the Library of Congress: Anti-immigrant cartoon:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/italian8.html

From The Red Scare, political cartoons about radical immigrants and labor:
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/HTMLCODE/SUBJECTS/ALIEN_1.HTM

A list of anti-immigrant cartoons:
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=4790637

rom Library of Congress American Memory, documents relating to anti-Chinese agitation:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/riseind/chinimms/chinimms.html

From History Matters: A Congressman Denounces 1921 Anti-Immigration Bill:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5079/

From History Matters: post-1924 immigration quotas:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5078

From History Matters: Shut the Door, a senator speaks in favor of restriction:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5080

Chinatown Declared a Nuisance! 1880 labor pamphlet calling for restriction on Chinese immigration:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/1870/wpccontents.htm

The Complaint of Salvatore Zamanti, a story of how an Italian immigrant was swindled:
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4902915?n=6&s=4

From The Red Scare, political cartoons about radical immigrants and labor:
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/HTMLCODE/SUBJECTS/ALIEN_1.HTM

A list of anti-immigrant cartoons:
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=4790637

From the Library of Congress American Memory, collection of photos and anti-Chinese speeches:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cicTitles5.html

From History Matters: A Congressman Denounces 1921 Anti-Immigration Bill:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5079/ From History Matters: post-1924 immigration quotas:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5078

A 1925 Ku Klux Klan Manual
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/klan/klanman.html

The Demon of the Orient, an 1883 anti-Chinese screed:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/demon1883.htm

From The Atlantic Monthly, Restriction of Immigration, by Francis A. Walker, 189lantic

http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/courses/city/Walker/walker.htm

From The Red Scare, political cartoons about radical immigrants and labor:
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/HTMLCODE/SUBJECTS/ALIEN_1.HTM

A list of anti-immigrant cartoons:
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=4790637

From Michigan State University Librarys Special Collections, a set of Klan documents from the 1920s:
http://www2.lib.msu.edu/branches/dmc/collectionbrowse.jsp?coll=22&par=1

From History Matters: A Congressman Denounces 1921 Anti-Immigration Bill:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5079/

From History Matters: post-1924 immigration quotas:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5078

Californias 1862 Anti-Coolie law:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/1870/anticoolieact.htm

From The Red Scare, political cartoons about radical immigrants and labor:
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/HTMLCODE/SUBJECTS/ALIEN_1.HTM

A list of anti-immigrant cartoons:
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=4790637

Immigration Issues In the Contemporary Context

PBS's The New Americans: shows a broad range of recent immigrant experiences
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/newamericans.html

Collection of anti-immigration links
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Immigration/Anti-Immigration/

US Census Data
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/reports.html

Population Reference Bureau: An agency providing data on immigration in the US
http://www.prb.org/Topics/ImmigrationMigration.aspx

Immigration Timeline:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/immigration_chron.cfm

President Bush proposes temporary worker program
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040107-3.html

Obamas Immigration statement
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/immigration/

McCains Immigration statement
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/68db8157-d301-4e22-baf7-a70dd8416efa.htm

News Stories
Im sure youll be able to find many more, so here are just a couple of examples:

Recent CBS story on Mexicans sending money home
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/30/ap/world/main4309122.shtml?source=search_story

Wiretap Magazines immigration articles: This is a magazine for and by younger readers.
http://www.wiretapmag.org/immigration/

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