American History Exploitation Project

General Sources for All Groups (Try these first, many have information on each of the four groups)

• The History Net - Where History Lives on the Web
• National Archives and Records Administration Home Page
• Sweatshop Exhibition
• United States History Index
• Words & Deeds in American History
• Historical Text Archive
• Gilderlehrman History Online
• History Channel
• American Memory Project: Rise of Industrial America
• Yahoo directory on immigration
• Excellent list of immigration links
• Triangle Fire site - fine on-line exhibit about tragic fire and exploitation at sweatshops
• Immigration - includes entries on each ethnic group and some first person narratives
• Digital History of Ethnic America -includes primary sources and photographs on all ethnic groups
• Historical Maps of the United States

Asian-Americans

• The Chinese in California - 1850-1925 - primary sources
• Chinese-American Contribution to Transcontinental Railroad
• Excellent collection of historic information on the Chinese-American experience from Harper's Weekly 1857-1892
• Directory of Primary documents from National Archives
• Museum of the City of San Francisco
• PBS The Chinese Experience- includes timeline and some eyewitness documents

Native American

• Native American Resources from the Smithsonian
• Native American History Sites
• Native American History Resources

Women

• Women's History Site
• Library of Congress resources for history of Women
• Women and Social Movements in the U.S.-over 1,000 primary documents on the history of women
  

Child Labor

• Lewis Hines Photographs of Child Labor in America
• Selection of Links to sites on Labor and Child Labor

African-Americans

• Slave narratives from the Federal Writer's Project
• 19th Century photographs from the Schomburg collection

Italian-Americans

• Italian American immigration
• Italian Immigrationfrom Digital History

Irish-Americans

• Irish Solidarity from Digital History

Primary Resources

• Library of Congress American Memory Project (Find your primary resources here!)
• NARA (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Oral history collection from Ohio - sorted by ethnic groups
• Minnesota Visual Resources Database
• Life Histories from the Federal Writer's Project