Migration In History

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Originally prepared as a pathfinder for History Day 1997-98

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Web QUICK CLICKS for research:

Be sure to stop by the official History Day website for some great research tips and information on current History Day topics.

• Gold Rush - - Klondike and California
• Find comprehensive historical and current travel and adventure informationas well as biographies of famous gold rush heroes from your local areaat: Ghosts of the Klondike Gold Rush
• Chronology of the Great American Gold Rush
• Valdez, Alaska Alaska and Klondike Gold Rush Links
• British Migration to America
• New England settlements
• Cherokee Trail of Tears
• The Cherokee Trail of Tears
• The Trail of Tears
• Historical documents, eyewitness accounts, classroom projects regarding the Trail of Tears
• Irish Migration to America
• Irish immigrants in America during the 19th century - a quick overview of the realitiesof life for the Irish in America during the 19th century
• Scots/Irish immigration of the 1700s - look at the bottom half of this documentfor the immigration information
• The Irish mind abroad: The attitudes and experiences of the Irish diaspora - This is a detailed and interesting article about the present day Irish immigrant in different parts of the world. There is also an historical overview of the reasons for Irish immigration in the 19th century.
• Gaelic Gotham: A history of the Irish in New York - Look at the top half of this page for images and the bottom half for a history of the Irish in the Big Apple
• Migrating West
• American Westward Expansion - This site includes a good essay on westward expansion, a history of the frontier trails, transportation and a useful timeline
• Westward Expansion and Regional Differences- This site has a terrific overview of Americanhistory and the expansion westward
• The Santa Fe Trail
• Latin Baseball Players - migration to America
• National History Day's Website - offers a brief history of Latins and baseball
• Books:
• The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic by RobRuck. Westport, CT : Meckler, c1990. MAIN ADULT Book 796.3570972 791
• Béisbol : Latin Americans and the Grand Old Game by MichaelM. Oleksak and Mary Adams Oleksak. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Masters Press,c1991. MAIN ADULT Book 796.357098 704 and MAIN ADULT Book 796.357098 Oleksak
• Magazine article: "Look what they've done to my game!" by Robert Heuer.AmericasVol47 Issue 3 May/June 1995 p. 36 How baseball came to Cuba.
• Multimedia: Microsoft Complete Baseball article 1946: Mexican Leaguein CHRONICLE - PREVIOUS LEAGUES
• Migration to Cleveland
• Chinese in Cleveland by Ranjit Gangadharan - The story of one ethnic group's migration to Cleveland
• Books:
• Cleveland Ethnic Directory by Bonutti, Karl B. Nationalities Services Center(Cleveland, Ohio) MAIN ADULT Book REF 977.132 C634e 1990
• Cleveland Ethnic Eats. A guide to Authentic Ethnic Restaurants and Marketsof Cleveland by Taxel, Laura MADISON ADULT Book 642 Taxel and MAIN ADULT Book 642 Taxel
• The Cleveland Ethnic Heritage Series, Cleveland State University (use the catalog to find individual call numbers):
• Asian Americans and their communities of Cleveland (1977)
• Byelorussian Americans and their communities in Cleveland (1982)
• Early settlers of Cleveland (1976)
• Ethnic communication in Cleveland : an exploratory study of ethnics andmass communication in Cleveland, Ohio (1978)
• Ethnic heritage and language schools in Greater Cleveland : a directory(1979)
• Ethnicity : a conceptual approach (1976)
• Hungarian Americans and their communities of Cleveland (1981)
• Irish Americans and their communities of Cleveland (1978)
• Italian Americans and their communities of Cleveland (1977)
• Lithuanian Americans and their communities of Cleveland (1978)
• Polish Americans and their communities of Cleveland (1976)
• Romanian Americans and their communities of Cleveland (1977)
• Serbian Americans and their communities in Cleveland (1977)
• Slovak Americans and their communities of Cleveland (1978)
• Ethiopian Jews migration
• Ethiopian Jewry Home Page- includes origins and history of Jews in Ethiopia and migration to Israel
• In Encarta, search the term 'Falashas'
• SIRS Researcher, which is one of the Research Databases, has two articles under the subject 'Jews, Ethiopian.' (Outside the Library OPLIN databases require an Ohio public library card for access.)
• Newspaper account: "Ethiopian Jews and Israel is exult as airlift is completed."New York Times, 5/26/91, p1. Reports that the Israeli Government announced the successful conclusion of an emergency airlift of 14,500 Ethiopian Jews, nearly the entire Jewish population in just under 36 hours.
• Magazine article: "Exodus." by Chesnoff, R.Z. New Republic, 6/17/91, Vol.204 Issue 24, p11, 2 pages. Chronicles the evacuation of Ethiopia's 15,000 Jews before rebel forces reached Addis Ababa. Overview of `Operation Solomon'which successfully flew the Ethiopian Jews into Israel.
• Hungarians in America
• Brief facts about Hungarian immigrationto the U.S. from Family Tree Maker
• Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Museum
• Books:
• Hungarian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland by Susan M. Papp// MAIN ADULT Book 977.132 7126 and MAIN ADULT Book REF 977.132 P218h
• The Hungarian Americans : the Hungarian experience in North America bySteven Béla Várdy (Content: Discusses the history, culture,and religion of the Hungarian Americans; factors encouraging their emigration; and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.) MAIN JUVENILEBook j973.0494511 911
• Migration of Latin Americans to America
• Brief facts about Latin immigration from Family Tree Maker: Mexico,PuertoRico,Cuba
• The Research Databases have articles on many of the issues surrounding Latin immigration under the subject Emigration and Immigration. (Outside the Library OPLIN databases require an Ohio public library card for access.)
• Japanese migration to America
• Japanese American Legal History
• Migration from India
• An historical perspective of Americans of Asian Indian origin
• India Currents Magazine - wherethe Indian- Americans are today
• Women on the Oregon Trail
• SIRS Researcher article (in the Research Databases; outside the Library OPLIN databases require an Ohio public library card for access.): "The Oregon Trail" by Brad Knickerbocker, ChristianScience Monitor, August 4, 1993, pp. 7-9 mentions women's recounting of experiences on the Trail.
• Books:
• Women's diaries of the westward journey, collected by Lillian Schlissel,New York: Schocken Books, 1982. MAIN ADULT Book 978.02 9422 and MAIN ADULTBook 978.02 Women's
• The Way West: Based on Diaries of Mrs. Amelia Stewart Knight, adapted by Lillian Schlissel. An adaptation of a diary of Amelia Stewart Knightwritten while she, her husband, and seven children journeyed from Iowato the Oregon Territory in 1853. New York: Simon & Schuster Books forYoung Readers, 1993. MAIN JUVENILE Book j917.8042 Schlissel
• Narcissa Whitman who spent her honeymoon on the Oregon Trail; The Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman When you click on a journalentry, you open a new Netscape window. Exit the window (instead of using the BACK button) to return to your list. (And, here's what finally happened to the Whitmans!)
• Migration to suburbs
• Suburban Pioneers - The history of Levittown
• Levittown: Documents of an ideal American Suburb
• Beyond the Edge: The Dynamism of Postsuburban Regions
• James Howard Kunstler--historian and critic of suburban development:
• "How to Mess Up a Town" from Planning Commission Journal, Winter 1995
• Books:
• The New Heartland: America's flight beyond the suburbs and how it is changingour future by Jon Herbers // MAIN ADULT Book307.764 458
• The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler (available at Cleveland Public Library)
• Home from Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler (available at Cleveland Public Library)
• A Nation of Strangers by Vance Packard // Main Adult Book 301.326 7115
• City and Suburb: The political fragmentation of metropolitan america, 1850-1970by Jon C. Teaford // Main Adult Book 352.0080973 874
• Down the asphalt path: the automobile and the American city by Clay McShane//MainAdult307.760973 McShane
• Marco Polo and the spice trade
• Medieval Sourcebook: Marco Polo: The Glories of Kinsay
• Migration of African clothing styles
• A Brief History about Bonwire Kente Cloth
• Statue of Liberty
• Next to the flag, it's America's most famous symbol for freedom - an icon for the immigrant, Liberty Enlightening the World as it is officially titled, is familiarly just the Statue of Liberty.
• Join us on this Photo Tour as we go from lower Manhattan to Liberty's crown! All while picking up a little history along the way.
• African tribal music - influence on the U.S.
• Georgia Sea Island Singers
• Griots
• Blues Net
• Tourism as migration
• Book review on Leisure Tourism
• Rock music - beginnings and spread throughout the world
• ...."Tracing the story from its renegade beginnings to its techno-driven present" - PBS documentary page
• Dance
• Books:
• Folk Dance Progressions by Miriam D. Lidster and Dorothy H. Tamburini //MAIN ADULT Book 793.31 566
• Country Dances of Colonial America by John Fitzhugh Millar // MAIN ADULTBook 793.34 624
• Encarta Multimedia Encyclopedia articles on Folk Dance and Dance
• British music invasion
• British Invasion - Fromthe All-Music-Guide
• British Invasion- More from the Encyclopedia Brittanica
• Polish migration to America
• Books
• Behold! The Polish Americans by Joseph A. Wytrwal // MAIN ADULT Book 973.049185
• My Name is Million: an Illustrated History of the Poles in America by W.S. Kuniczak // MAIN ADULT Book 973.049185 544
• Polish Americans and their Communities in Cleveland by John J. Grabowski// MAIN ADULT Book REF 977.132 Polish
• Magazine Article: "Images, status, mobility and integration in Americansociety" by James S. Pula: The Polish experience. Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 96, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p74, 22p
• Magazine Article: "Coming to America" by K. Monagle and L. Tarshis. ScholasticUpdate, 1/11/91, Vol. 123, Issue 8, P5, 3p
• Migration to Colorado
• Book: Homesteading Women: an Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950by Julie Jones-Eddy // MAIN ADULT Book 978.8 515
• Use Magazine Article Summaries to search for magazine articles on current population migrations to the Denver area.
• The People of Colorado section in the Encarta Encyclopedia article on Colorado gives a brief description of the makeup and origins of immigrants to the state.
• Migration of slaves from Africa to America
• Africa to America- this is a great resource for information about the slave trade
• The African slaveship: Hell on earth
• German migration to America
• Germans to America -- The German Migration to America - The  general theme of German immigration.
• Books
• In Search of your German roots: a complete guide to tracing your ancestors in the areas of Europe by Angus Baxter // MAIN ADULT Book 929.108931 Baxter
• Migration, emigration, immigration: Principally to the United States andin the United States by Olga K. Miller // MAIN ADULT Book REF 325.73 M649m
• Coming to America: a history of immigration and ethnicity in American lifeby Roger Daniels // MAIN ADULT Book 973.04 273
• Magazine Article: (on the Electronic Reference Network in the TechnologyCenter - Magazine Article Summaries) The American Dilemma: The PromisedLand: The Great Migration and How it Changed America. New Republic,5/27/91, Vol 204, Issue 21, p35, 4p
• Migration of Eastern Europeans to America
• Migrations: The Americas, 1600-1800 - An instructional multimedia presentation. The subject matter includes the first movements of Europeans and Africans into the lands of the Native Americans
• Encyclopedias:
• World Book Encyclopedia. Available at the Reference Desk on the second floor or on CD-ROM in the Technology Center. Ask the staff for help and use 'migration' as your search topic.
• The Conestoga wagon
• The Emigrant and Conestoga Wagons - essential information for immigration to the Oregon country. Learn the essentials on using a Conestoga Wagon for a trip on the wilderness trail.
• Ellis Island
• Official Ellis Island Site
• Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography - stereoscopic photographs from early twientieth century; Ellis Island
• Book: Ellis Island: an Illustrated History of the Immigrant Experience by Ivan Chermayeff, Fred Wasserman, and Mary Shapiro. // Book 325.10973221
• The Crusades
• Chronology of the Crusades
• Book: Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World by Karen Armstrong. // Book 909.07 121
• French Huguenots
• Experiences of the French Huguenots in America - The King's Refugees
• Who were the Huguenots?
• Huguenothistory
• Vietnam War
• Vietnam War Discussion- The home of the Vietnam War Internet news group. A treasure trove of pictures, accounts and documents relating to the War
• Statistics of the Vietnam War- dispels many popular myths about the War
• The Wars for Vietnam 1945-1975- a college site that provides an excellent overview of the War and the United States’ involvement
• Pilgrim's Voyage
• Mayflower Historyand Genealogy - a database of Mayflower Pilgrim’s historical information, letters, wills, lifestyles and documents
• The Pilgrims - from "Plimoth" Massachusetts
• Plymouth: Its history and people
• Italian Mafia in Cleveland
• The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia
• Book: The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia : Corn, Sugar, and Bloodby Rick Porrello // BOOK 364.1060977132 Porrello
• Donner Party
• The Donner Party by Daniel M. Rosen
• Donner Online
• The Donner Party - American Experience
• Donner Party -from the Museum of the City of San Francisco
• South Asian-Americans migration after the Vietnam War
• UnitedStates Immigration and Naturalization Service - INS Statistics by countries of origin
• Books
• Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip with James Hayslip // BIOGRAPHY459 B 8745
• Hoang Anh: a Vietnamese American Boy by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith // JUVENILEBook j973.04959 479
• History of the American Hobo
• National Hobo Association
• Books
• Done and Been: Steel Rail Chronicles of American Hobos by Gypsy Moon. //Book 305.568
• Knights of the Road: A Hobo History by Roger A. Bruns // Book 305.56 179
• Migration to Australia
• Key Facts in Immigration from the Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
• The Evolution of Australia's Multicultural Policies
• Abolition of the 'White Australia' Policy
• Migration Story from the Southern Australia Migration Museum
• Japanese concentration camps
• War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona 1942-1946
• The Japanese-American Internment
• Manzanar Project by Mark Leck and Doug Lockett
• MANZANAR -America's Concentration Camp
• How Beatles popularized key concepts of Eastern religions in the U.S.
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and The Beatles
• Italian migration to America
• Exodus - good factual information about Italians in America
• Bleeding Kansas
• Bleeding Kansas Gallery - a great site which chronicles this turbulent periodin the history of Kansas
• Potato famine and Irish migration
• Interpreting the Irish Famine, 1846-1850 - This excellent site includes photographs and drawings of Ireland during the famine. There are also diaries written by immigrants during the infamous 'coffin ship' voyages across the Atlantic
• The Irish 'Famine' or The Great Hunger - another excellent famine site. Don'tforget that Irish immigration to the United states was directly related to the famine. Be sure to take a look at the Irish immigration links near the top of this page
• Chinese immigrants
• The Chinese-American Experience
• Looking for Gold Mountain - The Chinese experience building the railroads
• Migration of Irish Dance to America
• Irish stepdancing: A brief history This is a general history which mentions the American connection
• Riverdance - probably the mostfamous Irish dancing of all time. Click here to read the Riverdance story
• The Silk Road
• Silk Road - summary about the silk road.
• From the Adriatic to the Pacific - More detailed than the link above. There are severalgood maps and pictures here
• Silk Road - Detailed history from early times to the present day
• Underground Railroad - migration of African Americans
• The Underground Railroad
• Taking the Train to Freedom
• Migrating for work during the Depression
• Main Causes of the Great Depression
• Illegal Mexican Immigration
• Mexican Immigration to the United States: who stays and who goes
• Indentured Servants
• Indentured Servants and Transported Convicts

Refugees and Migration - a good general article about refugees and emigration
Economic and demographic facts about immigration from the Cato Institute
Migration News newsletter with  many useful general links to search

We The People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity by James Paul Allen and Eugene James Turner // MAIN ADULT Book REF 912.13058AL427w - Population maps and immigration histories which cover America's vast diversity of ethnic minorities. This book is a great resource for your assignment.