Migration and Immigration: The Peopling of America

A focus on American foreign relations allows participants to increase their content knowledge of American diplomatic and military history. By discussing the role of the United States in the world, we are able to better understand issues surrounding expansion and its effects, both positive and negative, on the nation's values, institutions, and history. This topic includes American foreign relations from the revolutionary period through the age of expansion, the world wars, and the Cold War, and also explores the role of the United States in regional and post-colonial conflicts.

• Free African American Communities of the Antebellum
• Immigration and the Clash of Cultures in the 1920s
• The Great Migration in Ohio
• Summer Institute Session: The Atlantic World and Colonization

• African Americans in the Civil War
• Genealogy Project
• Mapping Ethnic Neighborhoods
• Science and Urban Life: Enter the Automobile

• Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE)
  CUBE's is a non-profit organization of educators, architects and preservationists who are interested in helping children identify, appreciate and take an active role in the development of their community. The web site contains a number of lesson plan, curriculum and teacher resources that center around cityscapes and independent architecture.
• Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s
  From the Ohio State University Department of History, this site focuses on four themes: The New Woman, the Scopes Trail, Anti-Immigration and the KKK, and Prohibition.
• Farewell to Manzanar: Teacher Guide
  This is an online supplemental unit to the book Farewell to Manzanar: Life in a Japanese-American Internment Camp by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houson and James D. Houston. It includes several student activities that can be used with the book or adapted. It also provides links to other on-line resources about internment camps. Created by the San Diego County Office of Education.
• The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
  This site was created by the Library of Congress and the National Library of the Netherlands to tell the story of the Dutch presence in America and American-Dutch interactions from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World War II period. It includes over 11,000 images of digitized primary materials such as paintings, maps and brochures.
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• Ohio Memory Project
• OhioPix
• Public History Resource Center
• American Folklife Center
• Library of Congress
• American Folk Art Museum