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www.udel.edu/readhistory/
This is our website! It offers information regarding our schedule, the historians, the authors, as well as resources that are available for your use. This includes the guiding questions and presentations for each workshop and the summer institute. In addition, there is a list of Internet resources with explanations much like this!
www.udel.edu/teachushistory/resources/immigration.html
This is the “sister project” of Read History. Their website has a wide variety of links to websites regarding immigration and migration. It is divided into categories including: international organizations, academic treatments of migration issues, U.S. organizations, U.S. Government, and teaching resources.
www.kidskonnect.com/OrphanTrains/OrphanTrainsHome.html
This website is another page from www.kidskonnect.com . It has in-depth information regarding the orphan trains including general history of the movement, stories of the children who were on the trains, as well as information regarding specific states’ orphan trains.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan
This page is off of the PBS website, www.pbs.org . The information is from the PBS American Experience series. It specifically deals with the orphan trains sponsored by the New York Children’s Aid Society. There is also a teacher’s guide with discussion questions before and after viewing the film clip.
THE WEST
www.pbs.org/weta/thewest
This resource focuses around Ken Burns and Stephen Ives’ film, The West. It has an interactive biographical dictionary with profiles of men and women of the West. Also, it has interactive maps that give information about the historic sites of the West. There are lesson plans also available for teachers to use.
http://www.sv.vccs.edu/acad/cyber_courses/jadams/pioneer_women/
This website offers narratives of women who migrated to the Western Frontier showing “the everyday realities of” their lives. The narratives are based on diaries, remembrances, and letters. They depict the lives of 28 emigrant women as they traveled westward. They began their travels from different states with their husbands and/or children. There are photos, drawings, a map of the Oregon Trail, a bibliography, and other useful links. The photos and drawings are fabulous!
www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/pioneer.html
The biographies and genealogical information of pioneer women as told by their descendants is offered at this website.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/foremoms.html
The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco offers information regarding the Foremothers of Olden Times (the pioneer women). Short narratives are included. In addition, there is information regarding the Donner Party, as well as additional resources regarding the Gold Rush.
http://www.nebraskastudies.org
The Nebraska Department of Education and Nebraska Historical Society have created this website for students and history buffs. There are photos, documents, video segments, maps, and more that capture the life and history of Nebraska from pre-1500 to 2000. It is divided into sections for an easier search. There is information regarding African-American and Native American migration.
http://www.inmotionaame.org
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents IN MOTION: The African-American Migration Experience. This website has images, texts, maps, and educational materials. It presents new interpretation of African-American history based on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent. It is easily navigated as the migrations are divided into sections such as: The Western Migration, The Northern Migration, Caribbean Immigration, African Immigration, among others.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african
The African-American Mosaic is sponsored by the Library of Congress. It is a resource guide to the study of black history & culture. It has primary sources such as maps, genealogical charts, grants certificates and photographs about western migration and homesteading as well as other information regarding African-Americans.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/resedu/bib_africanamericanwest.htm
This is the National Park Service’s Bibliographic essay on the African-American west. It lists titles of literature pertaining to this theme.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/categrs/immg.htm
The National Park Service offers a variety of resources to explore America’s past history of immigration. One such area on this site tells of the historic site of Westminster School/Seventeenth Street School in Orange County, California. This is the landmark in the historic case of Mendez v. Westminster, which ended dejure school segregation of Mexicans in California’s public schools. Other sections offer more information regarding Mexican Americans.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage/latinos/mendez.html
This website has a variety of resources regarding the Mendez v. Westminster court case.
http://mmp.opr/princeton.edu
This website focuses on the Mexican Migration Project which is a “multidisciplinary research effort between investigators in Mexico and the United States.” This project randomly samples households in Mexico during the winter months to gather information regarding migrants’ trips to the U.S. to work. There are oral histories available in both English and Spanish telling their stories.
http://mexico.usembassy.gov/mexico/migration.html
The Embassy of the United States/Mexico website focuses on the interactions between these two countries. Specifically, there is information regarding immigration to the U.S. including the proposed Temporary Worker Program and statistics, among others.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
The Digital History’s website is divided into categories including: timeline, documents, multimedia, guides, a teacher section, references, and exhibits. In addition, there are classroom-tested handouts and fact sheets. Although this website provides a wealth of information regarding American history, it also has a section regarding Immigration. This section has resources for interpreting primary sources and statistics with questions to use with students. It also has a section entitled, Mexican American Voices which has historical information about Mexican Americans including narratives regarding important people in this history and teacher references such as resource guides and lesson plans.
www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/immigration
This is the official White House website. This Immigration/Border & Security and Immigration Reform page focuses on the issues of immigration today. There are links to fact sheets, videos, and speeches and news. Presidential actions are also highlight the President’s strategy for comprehensive immigration.
http://cis.org/
The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization. Their website highlights common topics in immigration including: history, current numbers, illegal immigration, Black Americans, among others. It also has current news articles relevant to immigration to the United States. It is easy to move around the site including a search engine to assist one with finding information.
http://rs6.loc.gov/learn/index.html
The Learning Page is a website especially for teachers. There are over 7 million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings. In addition, there are lessons, activities, and tips for using these collections in the classroom. There is a section specific to immigration including women pioneers.
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Links
- WWW Virtual Library - American Indians: Index of Native American Resources on the Internet - www.hanksville.org/NAresources
This site is constructed primarily to provide information resources to the Native American community and only secondarily to the general community. The information is organized, insofar as possible, to make it useful to the Native American community and the education community. The information presented here is the product of much cooperative work. It would be impossible to maintain this list without the email from the hundreds of people who send me updates to their URLs and report new sites. This email is crucial to the operation of this index. The list of "don'ts" given below is simply to make the sorting through of my email a less difficult task. Please do not stop sending me this crucial information.
- PBS’ New Perspectives on the West -
www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ - great images, maps, lesson plans and quizzes; resources used in making “The West”
www.pbs.org/goldrush/ - Some great pages on this website – Check out “Fun Facts” and “Teacher Resources” (which has links to other great sites)
- History of the American West – from American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html -
Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than fortytribes living west of the Mississippi River.
- Photographers - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/biog.html(includes a lantern slide show)
- Trails to Utah & the Pacific – Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 -
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/overhome.html – Great maps and essays; check out “categories of materials” for diaries, images, trail guides and more.
- California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the ‘30’s - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html - see “Audio titles” link – site includes links to photos and other resources
- American Memory Homepage – from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
- Photos West Classics – photography collection of west photos – (good for transparencies) http://photoswest.org/exhib/faves/faves.htm
Includes Native American Women photos - http://photoswest.org/exhib/gallery4/leadin.htm
- Autry National Center - http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/collections/ includes a postcard collection that can be sized.
- Transcontinental Railroad – www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr -
excellent timeline, photo gallery, and check out the teacher resources (divided into history, geography, economics and civics)
- The American West – www.americanwest.com –
Appears to be a personal site; has some interesting links, i.e. www.earlyamerica.com
- Eyewitness to History – www.eyewitnesstohistory.com –
Check the link to “Old West” and “Index” – Some good essays and photos if you can ignore all the ads
- University of Colorado – Department of History - http://web.uccs.edu/history/ushistory/index.html -
Check the link to “The West” – nice collection of links
- The Denver Library: Western History/Genealogy Department -
www.denver.lib.co.us/whg Some good photos and diagrams
- The Multicultural American West -
www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/ Good source of links to other sites
- University of Kansas’ WWW-VL History Network -
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/west/ -Good source of links to other sites
- Western and Cowboy Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch – www.cowboypoetry.com – some good links to songs
- University of Washington’s Digital Library: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection - http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/ - good essays and a collection of great images
- Eduscapes Native Americans -
www.42explore.com/native3.htm & www.42explore.com/topic.htm
- Harpers Weekly: Harp Week Presents the American West -
http://thewest.harpweek.com/TheWestHome.htm - links to images and essays for topics such as buffalo, farming & agriculture, wagon trains, gold, railroads, life on the plains, the frontier and Indians
- National Park Service’s American Southwest -
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/amsw - check out the maps
- Gold & Silver (1847-1900) –The Gold Rushes of North America (1847-1900) - http://www.calliope.org/gold/gold.html - covers California, Comstock Lode and the Klondike.
Transportation:
Transcontinental Railroad –
Erie Canal –
National Road –
Communication:
Cattle/Livestock –
Land for Crops –
Chinese Exclusion Act:
Railroads:
Native American Oral History:
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