Research Starters

Julia Alvarez

Ellis Island
Take a virtual tour of the immigration museum on Ellis Island, look for your family name on the Immigrant Wall of Honor, read accounts of those who made their way to America's shores, and explore the American Family Immigration History Center.

American Immigration
This thorough site, originally created by a class of tenth graders, has grown to include a comprehensive overview of immigration from 1607 to the present.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service
Learn about the laws governing immigration to the United States and explore the history of immigration in a special section just for teachers and students.

Latino Immigration Links: Hispanic Online
Links to information and news articles on Latino immigration.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The United Nations Human Rights Web Site
A comprehensive site featuring all human rights-related documents produced by the United Nations. Special sections focus on the rights of women and children.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Read the full text of the document Eleanor Roosevelt helped draft.

Human Rights in Action: A UN CyberSchoolBus Module
An interactive site for students, Human Rights in Action features Q & A about human rights, a look at human rights around the world, and a section on how young people can work for human rights.

O. Henry

New York City and Its History
Find historical documents, photographs, and multimedia files through the links on this site created by Columbia University

New York City at the Turn of the Century
Read a brief informative article on life in the Big Apple in the early days of the 20th Century.

The Construction of the New York Subway
Read documents first published in 1904 on the creation of the "Interborough Rapid Transit" system. Text and photographs offer insight into the spirit of progress gripping the city at the turn of the century.

Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
Compelling hypertext document relates stories of those living on the Lower East Side in the early 1900s. Find sections on the immigrant experience, child labor, poverty, and working women.

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