MHS Library: History & Migration Project

Organized by theme, includes works of art and background essays that reflect the richness and diversity of the people, places, and cultures of the United States.

Online portal to view collection containing more than 90,000 works by California artists from the late 18th century to the present; nearly two million artifacts and photographs documenting the state’s history and peoples; and more than 100,000 natural specimens, images, and sound recordings of California species and environments.

From Princeton University's Office of Religious Life, archive of oral history interviews with refugees, former refugees, and asylees in the United States whose religious and spiritual lives have been consequential to their journey, resettlement, and integration.

American visual arts, organized by time period, on the themes of emigration, immigration and migration.

Collection of conversations from nearly 700,000 participants, the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.

Resources and art works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Founded in 1908, Allensworth represents a township in California founded, financed, governed and populated by African Americans. Located in the San Joaquin Valley, it was founded to be an agricultural community and center of learning. Where, African Americans only 50 years out of slavery could become economically independent.

UC curated digitized collection of photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more focusing on the African American experience in California.

From the America's Great Migrations Project: Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium, University of Washington.

Subject guide highlights records of federal agencies and collections that relate to people of the African Diaspora who migrated to and throughout various stages in United States history.

From the America's Great Migrations Project: Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium, University of Washington.

Brief overview.

Online lesson from the National Museum of the American Indian that provides perspectives from Native American community members, documents, maps, images, and activities about American Indian removals.

UC curated digitized collection of photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more focusing on the Native American experience in California.

Essays and primary sources from the Library of Congress.

Article about the Nome Cult Walk of Pomo.

Located in San Francisco Bay, the Angel Island Immigration Station served as an immigration port between 1910 and 1940. Online resources include stories, images, films, books, exhibits, and poems from the Immigration Station’s history.

From the America's Great Migrations Project.

UC curated digitized collection of photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more focusing on the Asian American experience in California.

Documentary film and resources.

Collections of Chinese American art and artifacts. Also see the Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion Curriculum Guide

Nonprofit organization started in 1996, with the initial goal of documenting oral histories from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II.

Manabu: Oral History Project

Founded to preserve and share the history of Japanese Americans. Its mission evolved to enhance appreciation for America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by documenting the stories of Americans of Japanese ancestry as an integral component of U.S. history.

National Parks Service collection of articles about American Latinos and the making of the United States.

Collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964.

UC curated digitized collection of photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more focusing on the Hispanic American experience in California.

Resource from the The American Immigration Council.

From the America's Great Migrations Project.

Includes a timeline of more than 1,000 farm worker strikes, boycotts, and other actions, a set of interactive maps showing the locations of those events; and an essay highlighting key actions and details.