Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Mexican Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Mexican Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Mexican Labor in the 1920s [Pdf]
[Free Registration/Login Required] Review historical documents of Mexican-Americans in the 1920's. Students will address what it was like to be a Mexican in America during this time considering working conditions, home life, etc.
Library of Congress
Loc: Interviews With Today's Immigrants
This site, part of a larger lesson plan about immigration from the Library of Congress, provides interviews that students had with immigrants from around the world.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: Immigration
This is a collection of 24 Grade-Leveled texts (5-11) on the topic of Immigration. Most Americans can trace their ancestry back to immigrants coming to the New World. Learn about America's history of immigration, particularly during the...
Digital History
Digital History: Mexican Americans
Read about the terrible treatment of Mexican American citizens and immigrants during the Hoover presidency. See how they received some help with the New Deal.
PBS
Pbs: The New Americans
This site from PBS chronicles the miniseries coming in April of 2004 entitled "The New Americans." The site documents the new American immigrants: read stories of immigrants from Argentina, China, Mexico, Hungary, Taiwan, Russia, and more.
USA Today
Migration Is a Two Way Street for Many Mexicans
This article describes Mexicans coming to work in the United States in order to make enough money to send to their families in Mexico, though many, as stated in the article, want to eventually return to Mexico.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Lori A. Flores, "The Fight for Farm Workers' Rights Is Still on the Table"
This article focuses on the plight of farm workers. It discusses a 1960 documentary hosted by Edward R. Murrow called "Harvest of Shame" and the book "Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California...
University of California
Uc Berkeley: America's Borders and Terrorism: The Waiting Game
The impact of September 11th on Mexican immigrants is discussed here. Many immigrants are faced with a decision of staying in America or returning to their home country.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Chinese Immigrants and Mexican Americans
Discusses the conflict with Mexican American and Chinese groups as white settlers pushed westward in the nineteenth century. Explains what brought so many Chinese immigrants to America and the roadblocks and discrimination that they had...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Chinese Immigrants and Mexican Americans
Like Native Americans, Mexican Americans and Chinese immigrants suffered harsh consequences due to relentless westward expansion by whites in the nineteenth century.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Mexican Colonization Laws
Read about the Colonization Law of August 18, 1824 where a Mexican statute allowed foreigners to immigrate to the country.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Mexican Migrant Workers in the 20th Century" by Jessica Mc Birney
A learning module that begins with "Mexican Migrant Workers in the 20th Century" by Jessica McBirney, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Biography of America: A Vital Progressivism
View a chapter from "A Biography of America" about the Progressive Era that focuses on minority and immigrant perspectives. An excellent resources for understanding the struggles of Native American, Mexican immigrant, Asian immigrant,...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: S. Deborah Kang, Ins on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the Us Mexico
This article focuses on the history of the immigration on the US-Mexico border. The US-Mexico border has been and continues to be both open and closed as a matter of design. For much of the twentieth century, the Immigration and...
Other
Family Search: Texas Emigration and Immigration
Learn about the people of Texas by searching through passenger arrival records, Mexican border crossing records, and other documents.
PBS
Pbs: Frontline: Economic Factors Influence Human Migration on u.s. Border
Explore the reasons people migrate to other towns, regions, or in some cases countries. This learning module investigates the economic pull for people along the Mexican border to cross into the United States.
PBS
The Sixth Section
Site is a companion piece to a PBS special on a group of Mexican immigrants who live and work in America but send their money back home to Mexico.
Other
Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation: The Peopling of America Timeline
A history of immigration timeline, which discusses and illustrates periods of U.S. immigration history, pre-1790 through 2000.
Digital History
Digital History: Viva La Raza!
This Digital History site provides an informative overview of the Mexican American civil rights movement in America.
Arizona State University
Chicana/chicano Experience in Arizona
Dual-language site containing images and documents that show the role Mexican Americans have played in the history and development of Arizona.
Other
Border Film Project
Experience the results of the Border Film Project that attempts to "show the human face of immigration" from both sides of the border. This site showcases photos and twelve video clips that were recorded with undocumented migrants and...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson 50: Using Music to Teach Personal Narrative
The personal narrative, apart from appearing as an option in the writing component of many state assessment tests, is a form of writing which allows students the chance to reflect seriously and honestly on important events in their own...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Mark Overmyer Velazquez, "From Repatriation to Deportation Nation"
This article focuses on the history of the relationship between the US and Mexico regarding immigration. In the 1930s, the U.S. government forced hundreds of thousands of ethnic Mexicans, including some U.S. citizens, back across the...