Discusses the challenges the U.S. government faces in using biometric data, such as scanned fingerprints and facial features, to track foreign visitors in an effort to control illegal immigration and terrorist activity. Click on link for...

In April of 1999, Representative John T. Doolittle delivered a speech before the United States House of Representatives commemorating the contribution of Chinese-Americans to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. This site...

Make Ellis Island come alive for U.S. history learners by processing younger students in a recreation of the immigration center. Recreate the uncertainty, fear, and confusion many immigrants experienced by arranging a variety of stations...

Learn about writer Carlos Bulosan and the experience of Filipino immigrants to the U.S. (focused on those in the Seattle area). Also provides profiles on Filipino labor leaders.

A great pictorial tour of the ferry ride and climb into the statue itself and back again. Have fun!

Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.

Miami-based law firm, Immigration Law Offices, Inc., provides information for new immigrants about basic tasks, such as finding housing, making phone calls, mailing letters, opening bank accounts, learning English, finding a doctor, and...

From The Brown Quaterly (1997) an article describing the role of the Chinese immigrant in building the railroad. Includes images of the Chinese railroad workers. (PDF - scroll down to page 7)

Americans at the turn of the century were alarmed about what they perceived as a change in the type of immigrants entering the United States. Some of the traits they saw as distinguishing the new immigrants from the old immigrants were...

Essay on Dutch emigration in modern times. Rather than the mass emigration that occurred during the 19th Century, emigration during the 20th Century to U.S. and Canada was on more of an individual basis.

The American Hispanic/Latinx history is a rich, diverse and long one, with immigrants, refugees and Spanish-speaking or Indigenous people living in the United States since long before the nation was established. America's Hispanic...

The 1920s was a time of intolerance and a return to nativism, a claim to return to American values, defined as those held by white, western European descendents. Read about the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, restriction on immigration,...

Find eleven lesson plans developed in conjunction with the PBS documentary "The New Americans," which explores what it means to be a new Americans in the twenty-first century. Lessons touch on topics associated with recently arrived...

Here are four timelines which are useful for anyone studying immigration to the United States. They are Global, Asia, U.S. Immigration Policy, and California timelines.

BBC News examines the issues of migration from Mexico to the United States. Arizona's illegal immigration and the implications of the drug violence in Mexico on economic cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. are discussed in some...

A brief description of the Immigration and Nationality Act, also known as the McCarran-Walter Act, which sought to exclude immigrants based not on their country of origin, as in the past, but moral or philosophical grounds. Included is a...

This extensive learning module examines how the United States became more connected with the world as it pursued an expansionist foreign policy, became the destination for many new immigrants, and encouraged migration to the Pacific...

Read about the reforms and legislation undertaken through Lyndon B. Johnson's concept of the Great Society. These included economic and educational reforms, consumer protection, changes to immigration laws, and the Voting Rights Act of...

Do you know how people become citizens of the United States? In Immigration Nation, you'll find out as you guide newcomers along their path to citizenship. Good luck!

"My Painting" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a Russian immigrant student who is making a painting to show how she feels about her new homeland and the people here. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...

Students will learn what it means to be a U.S. citizen, how citizenship is obtained, the rights and responsibilities of citizens, and community engagement.

Four-part interactive exhibit provides an illustrated overview of the cultural heritage of Americans of Arabic descent. Includes documentary evidence of the experiences of Arab immigrants and the influence of Arab Americans on U.S. society.

The March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was one of the deadliest workplace catastrophes in U.S. history, claiming the lives of 146 workers, most of them women immigrants in their teens and twenties. The fire was so horrific it...

Article describing the boycott of businesses and schools by immigrant rights supporters that took place on May 1, 2006. Discusses the impact of the protests nationwide. Links to other articles on immigration.