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American History Resources on the World Wide Web
Angel
Island: The Pacific Gateway
http://www.i-channel.com/education/angelisland/
This
site, which is based on the book Island: Poetry and History
of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940, examines the
experiences of the roughly 175,000 Chinese immigrants who entered
the United States through Angel Island.
Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment
at Manzanar
American Memory, Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html
In
1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) documented the Manzanar War Relocation
Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there
during World War II. This site Adams's 242 original negatives
and his 209 photographic prints which include views of daily
life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities.
Chinese in California, 1850–1925
American Memory, Library of Congress; University of California,
Berkeley; and California Historical Society
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html
This
illustrates illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century
Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images
and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs,
original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts
from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well
as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed
matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese
immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic
tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese
immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture
and other industries, and cultural and social life in California.
San Francisco’s Chinatown receives special treatment as
the oldest and largest community of Chinese in the United States.
Japanese-American Internment
C. John Yu
http://www.oz.net/~cyu/internment/main.html
This
site, created for a class project at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, provides essays, oral histories, and photographs
chronicling internment.
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S.
Constitution
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html
Based
on a 1987 Smithsonian exhibition, this site provides text, music,
personal accounts, and images that document the forced internment
120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
Peopling North America: Asian and African Labour
Dr. Egmont Lee, Project Supervisor, Applied History Research Group,
University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/F5.html
“Asian
and African Labor: Indenture and Beyond” outlines the
emergence of Indian, African, and Asian indentured servitude
in the British colonies of the Caribbean, the British plantations
of Southeast Asia, and the Americas after slavery’s elimination
in the late 19th century.
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