Here is the promised list of supplemental resources to help you in crafting your five paragraph essay on Immigration (full assignment to follow later this week). These resources will supplement your reading of Upton Sinclair’s, The Jungle. They will help you as you reflect on the pros and cons of immigration- both for the individual and for American society- historically and to the present day.
*If you are using these supplemental resources in place of reading The Jungle please read/ watch all the videos/ read all the articles/ explore the websites.
*If you are using these supplemental resources in addition to reading The Jungle pick the ones that you think will be most helpful to read or watch. It may be good to read or watch at least one from each category to give you a well rounded view of Immigration.
Primary Sources:
- Libraries of Congress archives (you can watch the whole collection, or the selected videos below will take about 15-20 minutes)
- Cattle driven to slaughter: https://www.loc.gov/item/00694171/
- Mining Operations, PA coal field https://www.loc.gov/item/00563601/
- New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market https://www.loc.gov/item/00694374/
- Assembling a Generator https://www.loc.gov/item/96521997/
- Girls Winding Armatures https://www.loc.gov/item/96522180/
- Sorting refuse at an incinerator plant https://www.loc.gov/item/00694386/
- Cutting sugarcane https://www.loc.gov/item/00563593/
- Charleston chain gang https://www.loc.gov/item/00564531/
Videos on Gilded Age/ American Immigration:
- You watched “The Gilded Age” the first day of class, but it is here to review if you need it:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjpYzFtxfjU (the best two hour documentary: the gilded age; covers so much of the big ideas of the jungle): 2 hours
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhjqqe750A (crash course history: american immigration 1880s-1920): 13 minutes
Essays about Immigration:
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/immigration-and-migration (overview of immigration) short read
- https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/09/30/how-u-s-immigration-laws-and-rules-have-changed-through-history/ (how immigration laws have changed throughout history) short read
- https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/exhibits/show/mexican-immigration/item/2591 (1900s attitudes toward Mexican migration) short read
Articles:
- An overview of the Gilded Age
https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/gilded-age long read
- https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/did-my-family-really-come-legally-todays-immigration-laws-created-a-new-reality (thoughts on what legal vs. illegal immigration means) short read
Ellis Island Website:
- https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/overview-history/ (peruse this and take as long as you like)
Wealth of Robber Barons:
Modern American Immigration (videos, article, book summary, website):
- Ideas behind Borders (lines on a map): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G2lEMberCw (overview of the Borders series/ idea behind Borders): 2 minutes
- https://www.vox.com/a/borders/mexico-guatemala (Borders series that explores complex issues of illegal migration from the southern US border): 15 minutes
- https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html (a modern undocumented immigration story) long read
- Summary of modern arguments for and against immigration: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xCFEta8s_6gXg1QHOF5q5kd6vnsEGENywYtHJT43zI0/edit
- https://theimmigrantstory.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAw6yuBhDrARIsACf94RXtkG119E3765swoD9PoT3sYgQu7MVi_99CuefH31NX1FX6Xmr_9IUaAoTjEALw_wcB (peruse this and take as long as you like)
All of this is also found in our google doc.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V8fi9FIX2wlfc1yl4iylpsq29wPnk3aRJV9LegM4Z7o/edit