LibGuides: Immigrant Heritage Month: Resources

Recommended Sites

Define American
Define American empowers diverse and nuanced storytelling about immigrant experiences across mediums and industries through research, partnerships, and storyteller engagement.
I Stand With Immigrants
An initiative that leads narrative campaigns that empower immigrants and allies to share their stories and drive action that demonstrate how immigration is good for our communities, economy, and country.
The Immigrant Story
The Immigrant Story (TIS) is a volunteer-run nonprofit with a mission to foster empathy and build a more inclusive community by sharing stories of immigrants and refugees who often overcame tremendous odds to reach the United States.
American Immigration Council
The Council brings together problem solvers and employs four coordinated approaches to advance change—litigation, research, legislative and administrative advocacy, and communications.
Immigrant Defense Project
The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) was founded over 20 years ago to combat an emerging human rights crisis: the targeting of immigrants for mass imprisonment and deportation.
Immigration History Research Center
Immigrant Stories helps recent immigrants and refugees create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience. The IHRC shares and preserves these digital stories for future generations.
Immigrant Records at the National Archives
Among the billions of historical records housed at the National Archives throughout the country, researchers can find information relating to immigrants from the late 1700s through the early 2000s.
I'm Your Neighbor Books
Welcoming Libraries are touring collections of Immigrant and New Generation picture books.

Recommended Tools

Who Gets to Be An American?
A presentation that provides a timeline of the evolution of American citizenship and how the United States has determined who belongs in this country and who does not.
Immigration Policy Tracking Project
A complete compilation of Trump 1.0 and 2.0 immigration policies -- indexed, summarized, searchable, with key source documents, and continually updated to reflect implementation and related developments.
The Immigrant Learning Center | Teacher Hub
Resources for teachers.

Storytelling Bill of Rights
Immigrants Belong: The Toolkit
The Immigrants Belong Toolkit is designed to equip digital storytellers and content creators with research-backed strategies to combat harmful and dehumanizing narratives about immigrants.
Misperceptions About Immigration to the U.S.: What the evidence shows
Immigration has been a cornerstone of the American story, shaping our nation's identity,
values, and progress. Yet misconceptions about immigration persist, fueled by rhetoric
that dehumanizes immigrants and stokes unwarranted fears. T
Timeline of Immigration to the United States

Library Databases

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines.