Stanford University
Stanford Magazine: Angel Island: Breaking the Silence
This article is about Katherine Toy, who is in charge of restoring the barracks at Angel Island. This story also discusses the plight of Chinese immigrants once they reach American shores and their poetry written on the walls of the...
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South Africa: Robben Island Remembers
Now a World Heritage site, Robben Island is asymbol of the brutality of South Africa?s apartheid past. It was prison to freedom activists such as Nelson Mandel. Read the legacy of this island from early Dutch colonizers to the present.
Google
Google Maps: Galapagos Islands
Explore isolated volcanic islands. Charles Darwin's observations and collections of the Galapagos wildlife in 1835 contributed to his theory of evolution by natural selection. [7:08]
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Cyark: Angel Island Immigration Station
From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Center in California functioned as a detention center for people immigrating to the United States through the West Coast. You can learn about this National Historic Landmark here through an...
The History Cat
The History Cat: Ellis Island
Tells the story of Ellis Island, the first stop for immigrants arriving in New York City beginning in 1890. Describes the process would-be immigrants to America had to go through before being allowed to board a trans-Atlantic ship, the...
Read Works
Read Works: Coming to America: Ellis Island and New York City
[Free Registration/Login Required] This full text is borrowed from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and provides information about the history of Ellis Island and the first person account of the immigration experience....
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Rhode Island Poets
Poets.org provides an overview of the poets from a particular state. The overview for Rhode Island includes information on the poet laureate,Tom Chandler. Other sections include featured poets (Galway Kinnell and Michael S. Harper) and...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Ellis Island: Colonial and Early American New York 1609 1890
Provides an overview of the history of New York and of how the United States government came to acquire Ellis Island. Fort Gibson was built there prior to the War of 1812 to serve as a strategic post in case of attack.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Us Virgin Islands
Learn about religion in the US Virgin Islands, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile. Includes general facts, history, and religious data.
University of Prince Edward Island
Island Studies Journal: Bridges & Islands: A Strained Relationship
This is a series of articles on bridges and how they impact on island cultures. One article focusses on Confederation Bridge which links Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Cocos (Keeling) Island
Learn about religion on Cocos (Keeling) Island, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile, which includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Cook Islands
Learn about religion in the Cook Islands, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile. Includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Faroe Islands
Learn about religion in the Faroe Islands, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile; includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Norfolk Islands
Learn about religion in the Norfolk Islands, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile; includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Association of Religion Data Archives:national Profiles:northern Mariana Islands
Learn about religion in the Northern Mariana Islands of Micronesia, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile; includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Pitcairn Islands
Learn about religion in the Pitcairn Islands of Polynesia, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile; includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Association of Religion Data Archives:national Profiles:turks and Caicos Islands
Learn about religion in the Caribbean, Turks and Caicos islands, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile; includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Falkland Islands
Learn about religion in the Falkland Islands, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile; includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hawaiian Islands: Erosion and Giant Landslides
High-resolution elevation data on land and in the ocean is used to examine the effects of erosion on the Hawaiian Islands. The remains of offshore landslides are also studied, and consistency with a hotspot model of formation for the...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Three Mile Island the Inside Story
This Web site was created to provide more information about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant; about the course of the accident there; about the steps?extending over almost 15 years?through which the nature and extent of the...
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Oak Island Treasure: The Legend
This website was the first one devoted to the mystery of the treasure on Oak Island, Nova Scotia and claims to have the most current and accurate information. Since 1795, many treasure hunters have tried to find treasure on Oak Island...
New York Times
New York Times: The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found?
[Free Registration/Login Required] The mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke has gripped imaginations for centuries. Now archaeology may be able to provide answers before long. This article describes the history of the...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: America Revolution: The First Rhode Island Regiment
Information not only about the First Rhode Island Regiment, a group made up almost entirely of freed slaves, but also a look at the change in the attitude of enlisting African Americans into the Continental Army as the Revolutionary War...
PBS
Kamchatka: Bering Island
PBS television has aired "Kamchatka: Siberia's Forbidden Wilderness" and this website summarizes that film. In it explores Bering Island, which was discovered by Vitus Bering who died there in 1741. It details the week long events of...
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