US History Primary Sources

A growing archive of personal stories of immigrants to the Pacific Coast
from Angel Island Immigration Station detainees to those arriving today.

Makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned 1942-1964.

The Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project aims to make available on-line letters from the IHRC Archives and other collections (private individuals, partner institutions) that were written between 1850 and 1970 both by immigrants (the so-called “America letters”) and to immigrants (“homeland letters”)