The IHRC Guide to Collections
The IHRC collections consist of print/published and archival materials documenting the immigrant experience in North America. The Center's collections have particular strengths in documentation on eastern, central, and southern European and Near Eastern ethnic groups -- those associated with the trans-Atlantic migration of the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. However, in its General/Multiethnic Collection, the IHRC also holds valuable primary and secondary source materials on earlier as well as more recent migration waves, encompassing immigrants and refugees from throughout the world. The IHRC also has a substantial body of records that document the response to immigration by organizations and individuals who provided services, worked for government policy reform, and educated Americans about immigrant needs and problems.
To browse the IHRC collections by ethnic group or search for periodicals, please select from the menu below (partially updated online version of The Immigration History Research Center: A Guide to Collections, compiled and edited by Suzanna Moody and Joel Wurl, publ. by Greenwood Press, 1991):
