{"id":804,"date":"2009-12-09T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2010-06-06T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:25:46","slug":"immigration-to-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/12\/09\/immigration-to-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration to the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-805\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/12\/22.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"175\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harvard University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930<\/a>, which is available through their <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Collections Program<\/a>, is a great resource that offers interesting primary sources that one cannot easily find elsewhere. This collection offers a wide range of material, including <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/photos.html\" target=\"_blank\">photographs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/manuscripts.html\" target=\"_blank\">manuscripts<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/allbooks.html\" target=\"_blank\">books and pamphlets<\/a>. While the focus is on immigration between 1789 and 1930, there is plenty of information on issues related to the Civil War era. One can browse the collection by <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/themes.html\" target=\"_blank\">theme <\/a>(including \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/themes-railroads.html\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration, Railroads, and the West<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/themes-gold.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Rush<\/a>\u201d) and <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/subject.html\" target=\"_blank\">topic <\/a>(including <a href=\"browse('Attitudes');document.browseform.submit();\" target=\"_blank\">Attitudes Towards Immigrants<\/a>, <a href=\"browse('Living conditions');document.browseform.submit();\" target=\"_blank\">Living Conditions<\/a>, <a href=\"browse('Reasons for immigration');document.browseform.submit();\" target=\"_blank\">Reasons for Immigration<\/a>, <a href=\"browse('Working conditions');document.browseform.submit();\" target=\"_blank\">Working Conditions<\/a>). Also check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/themes-maps.html\" target=\"_blank\">map collection <\/a>and links to other <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/immigration\/links.html\" target=\"_blank\">digital resources <\/a>on this subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University\u2019s Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, which is available through their Open Collections Program, is a great resource that offers interesting primary sources that one cannot easily find elsewhere. This collection offers a wide range of material, including photographs, manuscripts, and books and pamphlets. While the focus is on immigration between 1789 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,156,172,12,173],"tags":[162,163,160],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-images","category-letters-diaries","category-maps","category-rare-books","tag-settlers-immigrants","tag-us-the-world","tag-women-families"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}