HISTORY 125
IMMIGRATION & ETHNIC GROUPS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Dr. Van Ells

LECTURES

  1. Introduction to Immigration and Ethnic History
  2. America Before Columbus
  3. Europe Discovers America
  4. The Establishment of European Colonies
  5. The Establishment of English Colonies
  6. Colonial Immigrants
  7. Ethnicity and the American Revolution
  8. American Expansion and its Ethnic Consequences
  9. Whites and Blacks in the Old South
  10. Origins of Mass Immigration
  11. The Old Immigration: The British and the Irish
  12. The Old Immigration: Northern Europe
  13. Immigrants and Society, 1820-1890
  14. Changing Patterns of Immigration
  15. The New Immigration: Italy
  16. The New Immigration: The Western & Eastern Mediterranean
  17. The New Immigration: Eastern Europe
  18. The New Immigration: European Jews
  19. Immigrants and Society, 1890-1914
  20. The Rise and Fall of Asian Immigration
  21. Reservations and Segregation: Native Americans and African Americans
  22. Gilded Age Nativism
  23. World War I
  24. Closing the Door: Immigration Restriction
  25. The 1920s and 1930s
  26. World War II
  27. Postwar America
  28. Puerto Ricans & Displaced Persons
  29. The Cold War
  30. Civil Rights and Immigration Reform