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• Ancestors in the Americas PBS Video Series
• In America Books
• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (search for your immigrant group)
• Immigration in the Early 1900s (from Eyewitness to History.com)
• New York Public Library Digital Library
• Immigration and United States History (from America.Gov)

Ellis Island

• Ellis Island
• Ellis Island American Family Immigration History Center
• Circle Line New York Around Manhattan Sightseeing Tours
• Statue of Liberty National Monument (National Park Service)
• Ellis Island (from History.com)

Asian Nation:

• Bangladeshi & Pakistani Americans
• Cambodian Americans
• Filipino Americans
• Hmong Americans
• Laotian Americans
• Native Hawaiians and Pacific Americans
• Taiwanese Americans

Arab Americans

• Coming to America (from the Arab American National Museum)
• Arab American Immigration (from HistoryWired)
• Arab Americans (from the Arab American Institute)
• Famous Arab Americans (from the Arab American Institute)
• The People Perceived as a Threat to Security: Arab Americans Since September 11 (from Migration Policy Institute)

Canadian Americans

• Henry Boucher, French Canadian Textile Worker (from Immigrants in the Progressive Era: American Memory, Library of Congress)

Chinese Americans

• The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 (from American Memory, The Library of Congress)
• Archives of the West from 1877-1887 : Documents on Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy (from PBS)
• Chinese Immigrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad (from Digital History)

Central Americans

• The Central American Foreign Born in the United States (from Migration Policy Institute)
• Special Source Issue: Central America (from Migration Policy Institute)
• Immigration from Mexico : Study Examines Costs and Benefits for the United States (from Center for Immigration Studies)
• Guatemalan Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)
• Salvadoran Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)
• Mexican Americans (The Handbook of Texas Online)

Cuban Americans

• Cuban Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)
• Cuban Americans, Profile of a Community

Danish Americans

• Danish Americans (from Countires and their Cultures)
• Danish Americans (from Trivia-Library.com)
• The Danish Immigrant Museum

Dutch Americans

• The Dutch Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)
• Well Known Prominent Dutch Americans

English Americans

• English Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)

Indian Americans

• Indian Americans (from American Nation)
• A Historical Perspective of Americans of Asian Indian Origin 1790-1997 (by Srirajasekhar Bobby Koritala)
• Asian Indian Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)
  

Irish Americans

• Irish Immigration (from Spartacus Educational)
• Irish American Solidarity (from Digital History)
• The Irish Potato Famine (from Digital History)
• Irish Americans (Countries and their Cultures)

Italian Americans

• Italian Americans (from Digital History)
• Statistics of Italian Americans in the United States
• Our Contributions: The Italians in America (from YouTube)

German Americans

• German Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)
• Germans in America (from the US Embassy)
• The German Americans an Ethnic Experience (book online from Willi Paul Adams)

Greek Americans

• A Timeline of Greek Immigration
• Greek Americans Part 1(from YouTube) and Greek Americans part 2 ( from YouTube)
• People, Races, Ethnicity in the U.S. Greek Americans Part 1(from Trivia Library)

Japanese Americans

• Japanese Americans (Countries and their Cultures)
• A History of Japanese Americans in California: IMMIGRATION
• Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
• Japanese Americans (from Asian Nation)

Jewish Immigration

• Jewish Immigrants (from Spartacus Educational)
• The American Jewish Experience through the Nineteenth Century: Immigration and Acculturation
• Jewish Migration to the United States (from Ancestry.com)
• An Overview of Jewish Immigration (the American Immigration Law Foundation)

Korean

• The Korean Americans: A Century of Experience
• In Observance of Centennial of Korean Immigration to the U.S
• Annotated Chronology of the Korean Immigration to the United States: 1882 to 1952
• Korean Americans: Asian American History : (from Asian Nation)

Norwegian Americans

• Norwegian Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)
• Norwegian Immigration (from the University of Minnesota)

Polish

• Polish Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)
• Tradition and the Polish Immigrant (from the University of Delaware Library)

Russian Americans

• America Jewish History 1880 - 1924 : The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming by Jerry Klinger (is President of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation).
• Russian Immigrants (from Spartacus Educational)
• Russian Americans (from Trivia Library)

Vietnamese Americans

• Vietnamese American Heritage Project (from the Smithsonian)
• Vietnamese Americans (from Countries and their Cultures)

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