Covers 1789-1930. Offers a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
Documents immigration activity on Ellis Island, NY,1880 - 1924. The Ellis Island Hospital was of intense interest and became the subject of a National Science Foundation study in 2007. Functions of Ellis Island were discontinued after 1954.
Enter: your country’s [name] history timeline for best results, to discover /explain what was happening in your country and why people would want to emigrate (leave).
This book is in alphabetic order by country – they have background on history, demography and political life. This book would explain why someone would emigrate