Immigration in U.S. History

The American Presidency Project archives contains primary source documents related to the study of the Presidency. Includes presidential papers, party platforms, candidates' remarks, Statements of Administration Policy, documents released by the Office of the Press Secretary, and election debates.

Archive of oral histories and artifacts related to the Bracero Program, a guest worker initiative in place from 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers came to the U.S. to work as part of the program.

The U.S. decennial censuses from 1790 to 2010.

Dillingham Commission immigration reports issued to the Senate from 1909-1911.

Digitized images and texts that document the experiences of post-1975 refugees and immigrants to the U.S. from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

Search Ellis Island passenger records and learn more about Ellis Island via this site.

"Documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s."

Library of Congress guide to published U.S. immigration history sources.

Selected primary source immigration-related images from the Library of Congress.

University of Minnesota collection of images and audio files related to immigration history.

Immigration Records/Ship Passenger Arrival Records from NARA (National Archives & Records Administration).

Interactive galleries of images, music, text, and first-person accounts of experiences in Japanese American detention camps during WWII.

More than 1,000 original documents chronicling the lives of New York’s pre-Civil War immigrant community.

Tens of thousands of documents from around the world by and about Emma Goldman (1869-1940), a leading figure in American anarchism, feminism, and radicalism who faced deportation for her activities.

Online exhibits that feature working class tenement residents who moved to New York City from other parts of the world and country.

New York Public Library's collection of digitized photographs of Ellis Island from 1902-1913.

"Portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works drawn from the Library of Congress."