Immigrant History Sources

Secondary Source List

Review the following secondary sources on Immigrant History and select two that most closely support your research question.

• Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts. (n.d.). Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute. www.history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/chinese-immigration
• History Lesson 1: History of Immigration Through the 1850s. (n.d.). Constitutional Rights Foundation. www.crfimmigrationed.org/lessons-for-teachers/71-immigrant-article-1
• History Lesson 2: History of Immigration From the 1850s to the Present. (n.d.). Constitutional Rights Foundation. www.crfimmigrationed.org/lessons-for-teachers/72-history-lesson-2
• Klobucista, Claire, Cheatham, Amelia, and Roy, Diana. (2020, June 23). The U.S. Immigration Debate. Council on Foreign Relations. www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-immigration-debate-0
• Longley, Robert. (2019, April 12). National Origins Act Established the US Immigration Quota System. ThoughCo. www.thoughtco.com/national-origins-act-4683986
• Immigration and the Border. (n.d.). NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/immigration-border-crisis
• Wolf, Zachary B. (2019, July 13). Yes, Obama Deported More People Than Trump but Context Is Everything. CNN. www.cnn.com/2019/07/13/politics/obama-trump-deportations-illegal-immigration/index.html
• Immigration ... Japanese. (n.d.). Library of Congress. www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/japanese.html
• The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act). (n.d.). Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute. www.history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act
• Robinson, David. (2019, June). The Immigration Debate. American Foreign Service Association. www.afsa.org/immigration-debate
• Asian Immigration. (n.d.). Immigration History. www.immigrationhistory.org/lesson-plan/asian-migration/

Primary Source List

Review the following primary sources on Immigrant History and select two that most closely support your research question.

• A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans & the U.S. Constitution. (n.d.). Smithsonian National Museum of American History. amhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/overview.html
• Burke, Monte. (2016, October 25). 6 Immigrant Stories that Will Make You Believe in the American Dream Again. Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2016/10/04/6-immigrant-stories-that-will-make-you-believe-in-the-american-dream-again/#79b711228027
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. (n.d.). Our Documents. www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act?_ga=2.119380361.161436912.1684853730-645536635.1684853730
• Horne, Madison. (2019, March 13). 20 Ellis Island Immigration Photos that Capture the Hope and Diversity of New Arrivals. History.com. www.history.com/news/ellis-island-immigration-photos-diversity
• I Am an Immigrant. (n.d.). Stories. www.iamanimmigrant.com/stories/
• Immigrating to America, 1905. (2005). EyeWitness to History. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/immigrating.htm
• Immigration Restriction Act of 1924. (n.d.). Digital History. www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1116
• Lazarus, Emma. (1883, November 2). The New Colossus. National Park Service. www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/colossus.htm
• Life Before Exclusion. (n.d.). Chinese American Museum. www.camla.org/chinese-exclusion-act/
• Our Documented Rights: Thinking About Chinese Exclusion. (n.d.) National Archives, www.archives.gov/education/lessons/chinese-exclusion.html
• ProCon.org. (2019, November 12). Should the Government Allow Immigrants Who Are Here Illegally to Become US Citizens?. immigration.procon.org/
• Sesin, Carmen. (2018, December 26). Through Immigrant Stories, a Portrait of America. NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/through-immigrant-stories-portrait-america-n948246
• What 8 People Want You to Know About Immigration in America. (2018, January 25). Man Repeller. www.manrepeller.com/2018/01/immigration-stories.html

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If you are not finding a secondary or primary source that has the information you need, you are welcome to use sources from outside of this list.

You can also return to the course concepts related to your topic for links to the primary and secondary sources referenced in the instruction.