Immigration (U.S) Resources
Databases
America: History and Life
Index to articles on all topics of history in the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Coverage includes all key English-language historical journals as well as selected state, local, and international historical journals.
Dates of coverage: 1954 - Present
History Cooperative
A project of the American Historical Assoc, the Organization of American Historians, the U. of Illinois, and the Nat'l Academy Press, the Historical Cooperative provides full text of a number of important historical journals
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text collection of journals, magazines and newspapers from ethnic, minority and native presses.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Index of articles, interviews, and book reviews in the humanities and social sciences, including antropology, economics, psychology and sociology.
JSTOR
Provides access to articles published more than 2 years ago in over 100 scholarly journals.
Project MUSE
Collection of close to 250 full-text journals covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Collection of statistics covering the history of the United States from the 18th century through the end of the 20th
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Other Online Resources; many of these are Primary Sources
Immigration History Research Center
An interdisciplinary research center in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. Founded in 1965, the IHRC promotes research on international migration with a special emphasis on immigrant and refugee life in the U.S.
Ancestors in the Americas
Companion site to the PBS series about Asian immigrants to the Americas. Site includes historical documents, timelines, and genealogy resources.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: US Immigration
Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West
History Matters
Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence.
New York Times (1851-2003)
Fulltext collection of historic newspapers, including the New York Times (1851-2003) and the Chicago Defender (1905-1975). Fulltext includes articles, illustrations and advertisements. For current issues of the New York Times, try the Proquest Newspaper
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
A collection of about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials illustrating
A Primary Source
Urban Experience In Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
Documents the life and times of Jane Addams, the history of the social Settlement House Movement and of Hull-House, and the history of Chicago's Near West Side neighborhood and its immigrant communities.
Reference Books/ Print Resources
American immigrant cultures : builders of a nation
WSU Vancouver Reference E184.A1 A63448 1997 v.1 & v.2.
Encyclopedia of multiculturalism
WSU Vancouver Reference E184.A1 E58 1994
v.1-v.6.
Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups
WSU Vancouver Reference E184.A1 H35
Catalogs
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Griffin
Catalog of the items owned by the WSU Libraries. Includes all four campuses (Vancouver, Pullman, Tri-Cities and Spokane).
Summit Catalog
Joint catalog of libraries across the Pacific Northwest. Includes items owned by over 32 libraries.
WorldCat
Over 35 million records of any type of material owned by libraries throughout the United States and several other countries.
Subject Librarian
Kathi Fountain
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last updated: January 22, 2008
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