Resources

Timelines


Immigrationhistory.org Immigration History Timeline and Lesson Plans
https://immigrationhistory.org/timeline/

Library of Congress Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/global-timeline/

Ellis Island Foundation Immigration Timeline
https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/immigration-timeline

Pew Research Center - How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/09/30/how-u-s-immigration-laws-and-rules-have-changed-through-history/

Council on Foreign Relations U.S. Postwar Immigration Policy Timeline - https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-postwar-immigration-policy

Brown University Choices Program - U.S. Immigration Policy, Past and Present
https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1vQpiaHh30KH9Bakpu7pBP7y0uYlR0BUNJOiVPSymrmk&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650
Companion worksheet: https://www.choices.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Graphic_Organizer_ImmigrationTWTN-1.pdf

Digital Mapping


Southern Poverty Law Center Confederate Monuments
https://www.splcenter.org/whose-heritage

Lynching and White Supremacy Map
https://plaintalkhistory.com/monroeandflorencework/explore/

Mapping the Mexican Midwest
https://mappingthemexicanmidwest.bryanwinston.org

Here’s Everyone Who’s Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820 (based on the DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics)
https://metrocosm.com/animated-immigration-map/

Visualizing the Flow of Asylum Seekers Into the Industrialized World (based on UNHCR data)
https://metrocosm.com/asylum-seekers/

All the World’s Immigration Visualized in 1 Map (based on data from U.N. Population Division)
https://metrocosm.com/global-immigration-map/

Oral History & Community Archives


Digital Delano
https://bakersfieldcollege.libguides.com/DigitalDelano

Museo Urbano
https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/oral-history/public-history/museo-urbano.html

University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center
https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc

Chicana Por Mi Raza
http://chicanapormiraza.org

Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project
https://crbb.tcu.edu

University of Texas at Austin Voces Oral History Center
https://voces.lib.utexas.edu

Oregon State University Oregon Multicultural Archives: Oral History Collections
https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/oma/oral-histories

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill New Roots: Voices from Carolina del Norte!
https://newroots.lib.unc.edu

Many Paths, Many Voices: Oral Histories from the University of Washington Special Collections
https://content.lib.washington.edu/ohcweb/index.html

University of California, Irvine Southeast Asian Archive
https://seaa.lib.uci.edu

Brooklyn Historical Society East New York Oral History Project
http://eastnewyorkoralhistory.org/interviews.html

Texas Tech The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/

West Point Center for Oral History
https://www.westpointcoh.org/