National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Tenement Museum: Your Story, Our Story
This online museum features a digital archive. Students, and anyone around the United States, are encouraged to upload images of family objects and their stories. American immigration and migration are the foci for this archive.
Other
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Poor Pat Must Immigrate
Cross-curricular plan for lessons on the immigration of the Irish to America in the 1800s. Source material includes ballads of the immigrant experience, letters, scrapbook pages and notices to the 'Catholic Herald' seeking information...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Child Labor in America
Historical photographs provide students with a firsthand look at the issue of child labor during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this lesson plan, students will use photographs to further understanding of the...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Nativism in 19th C. America
In this instructional activity, students explore the reasons people immigrated to America in the nineteenth century, the urban growth that resulted, the development of public education, the contributions of immigrants, the wave of...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Immigration and Migration: Timeline and Terms
[Free Registration/Login Required] An interactive look at court cases that deal with the rights of immigrants between 1876 and 1901.
Other
American Women's History: Immigrant Women
A resource page with links to information about immigrant women.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Norwegian Immigration in the Nineteenth Century
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan about Norwegian immigrantion to the United States.
Other
Web Site of Rajiv Pant: My America by r.k. Narayan
This site contains an article written by R. K. Narayan about why many people from India immigrate into the United States. (First published October 1985)