Additional Resources
Many organizations, including libraries, archives, museums, and community groups, help preserve and share immigrant stories, both statewide and across the country. They have created websites, exhibits, research guides, lesson plans, and story collections for all to explore. We could not do this work without them.
Here is a selection of immigration history projects we found helpful and inspirational:
- Becoming Minnesotan: Stories of Recent Immigrants and Refugees, archived website from the Minnesota Historical Society
- Groups of Minnesotans research guides, Minnesota Historical Society
- Immigration and Americanization, 1880-1930, primary source set from DPLA
- Immigration History Research Center Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries, especially:
- Immigrant Stories project
- Digital Collection on UMedia
- Story Collections
- Teaching Immigration with the Immigrant Stories Project: Lesson Plans
- "Leaving Europe: A New Life in America" online exhibition by Europeana
- Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories archived website from the Minnesota Historical Society
- Moving Lives Minnesota: Stories of Origin & Immigration, an initiative by the PBS stations of Minnesota
- Naturalization & Immigration Records research guide, Minnesota Historical Society
And many more, including specific ethnic group heritage organizations statewide and nationwide.
For a bibliography and credits, see below.