PBS
Online Newshour:domestic Security
Features an ongoing collection of articles and resources providing current and past news on domestic security and the war on terrorism. Gives facts on our domestic surveillance programs, the National Security Agency, the USA Patriot Act...
Harvard University
Harvard Univ. Library: Book of Instructions for Medical Inspection of Immigrants
This fascinating book from the Harvard University Library lays out the instructions for examining immigrants who entered the United States by way of Ellis Island. The book was published in 1903 per the instructions of the Surgeon-General.
Other
Civics Online: Comprehensive Immigration Law of 1924
Read the text of the Immigration Act of 1924 which lays out the specific quotas for immiigrants from over fifty countries.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Gop's Efforts to Reach Hispanics
Article reports on the issue of immigration policy within the Republican party and how the issue may affect Republicans' ability to win Hispanic/Latino voters. Includes an audio version of the story.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Americans Think Illegal Immigrants Should Stay and Leave
Article reports on the complicated feelings that Americans have regarding the social issue of illegal immigration.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Obama Goes It Alone
Article reports on President Obama's executive order on immigration. Contains a video of Obama's full speech on the order.
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.
US National Archives
National Archives: How Have Americans Responded to Immigration?
How have Amercian's views on immigration changed over the course American history? What causes the shifts in acceptance? Students will view documents spanning the 19th and 20th century to answer those questions. They will examine...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Effort to Deport Central American Families
Article reports on efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport families who were part of the surge of Central Americans who crossed into the U.S. illegally over the past two years.
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National Immigration Law Center
The official site of the organization that is dedicated to protecting the rights of immigrants. Site provides services such as policy analysis and advocacy, litigation, trainings and conferences, and general information on current...
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U.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Get the facts directly from the United States government organization for immigration. This site also includes links to related news releases.
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Metrocosm: Here's Everyone Who's Immigrated to the u.s. Since 1820
America is referred to as a "melting pot". View how we attained this label using the following map that shows patterns of immigration from 1820-2013. Included are charts that show the immigration "waves" by country from 1820-2013.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Immigrant Felons and Deportation
Read a case study of a 63 year-old woman who was almost deported recently because of a felony she committed in 1998. An audio version of this story is also available.
Other
Urban Inst: The Health of Children in Immigrant Families
This is a report of the analysis of national survey data to gauge the well-being of immigrant children compared with children in native-born families. The authors examine different areas, including family income and environment, child...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Origins of the Progressive Era
Given broad categories that describe the major goals of the progressive movement and general information about selected issues of the late 1800's/early 1900's, students will categorize the issues according to corresponding progressive...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Global America
Comprehensive teaching unit on globalization's influences on the political and social structure of America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Includes a look at how immigration has affected a changing America. Contains video and...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Industrializing America
Comprehensive teaching unit that explores the "second industrial revolution" and the mass production of consumer goods. This, in turn, caused an increase in the labor force and immigration. Learn how these changes brought about the start...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia
This is a resource about the state of Utah. Includes images and articles on everything from geology to famous people in the state.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: The Immigration Debate
An excellent in-depth report from NPR that examines immigration issues in the United States today and its affect on America's economy. Delves into the debate Congress is having over proposed new immigration law.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Whose Land Is This? Webisode 8
From Joy Hakim's marvelous set of books, A History of US, this webisode offers narrative, pictures, and teaching guides for the settling of the West after the Civil War.
Other
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21: The Ken Elliott Collection
Get a glimpse of the excitement and emotion, captured in pictures, as hundreds of new Canadians arrive at Pier 21 in 1965.
Canadian Museum of History
Cmc: The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada
Government claims to lands in Western Canada was one matter but maintaining sovereignty over these lands was quite another. Sir John A Macdonald's approach to maintaining sovereignty in western Canada by not losing the land to American...
Other
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
The Angel Island Foundation provides a history of the Immigration Station that was in operation from 1910 to 1940. Find information on the journey across the Pacific and conditions upon arriving at the Station.
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Project Visa
A comprehensive internet resource guide to visa and embassy information for all countries around the world. Search by region or view the entire country list. Links to other travel, visa, and immigration sites.