US History Links

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Chapter 18: America Though the Eyes of the Workers, 1870-1890

Links

    American Family Immigration History Center: Ellis Island, http://www.ellisisland.org
"Between 1892 and 1924 over 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York. Now you can research passenger records from ships that brought the immigrants - even see the original manifests with the passengers names."*

    Ancestors in the Americas, http://www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheamericas/
"Companion Web site for the PBS series Ancestors in the Americas, on the history of Asian Americans in North America. The site includes a timeline and individual stories from Asian American immigrants and descendants of those immigrants. These stories touch on many issues that have faced the Asian American community, such as race and racism, preservation of tradition, and adjustment to a new culture."*

    Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, http://www.chcp.org/Pvirtual.html
"Virtual Museum of Chinese History and Culture. This site features articles and images on Chinese culture including music, decorative arts, marriage practices, and festivals. A special section also includes information on Chinese in the New World, with articles on the San Jose Chinese Cemetery, Chinatown in the Caribbean, and the history of the fortune cookie."*

    Documenting Asian America, http://chnm.gmu.edu/AsianAm/DAA/
"A document collection on Asian American history from George Mason University and the University of Maryland at College Park. The site presents family histories, map exercises, oral histories, and web projects that trace the movements and life experiences of individual Asian Americans who have contributed their stories to the document project."*

    Japanese American National Museum, http://www.janm.org/main.htm
"Homepage of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. The museum includes a virtual exhibit hall, which houses documents and images on various aspects of the Japanese American experience. Exhibits include "The Life and Work of George Hoshida: A Japanese American's Journey," an exhibit on the contacts between the Japanese American, African American, and Latino communities in Los Angeles and a collection of letters from Japanese American students interned during World War II."*

    Korean American Digital Archive,
"A database of manuscripts, documents, photographs, and oral histories from Korean Americans. The collection includes over 11,000 pages of documents and over 1,300 photographs from several component collections. The database is searchable through the component collections or as a whole."*

    The Chinese American Museum, http://www.camla.org/
"Homepage of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles. A timeline of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, from 1769 until the present, and individual stories of Chinese Americans living in Los Angeles offer the student a sense of the major events for the L.A. Chinese American community, as well as insight into the personal lives of the community members."*

    The Coney Island History Site, http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/index.html
"An illustrated history of Coney Island. Created by Jeffrey Stanton, who is currently writing a history of Coney Island, the site contains photographs, illustrations, advertisements, and a narrative describing the several parks that made up this urban amusement center."*

    Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920,
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
"A multimedia collection about popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived at the turn of the century. An American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress, the site includes Yiddish and English play scripts, theater playbills and programs, motion pictures, sound recordings, photographs, and memorabilia items from the life and career of Harry Houdini."*