General Information

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/hyper_titles.cfm
This is a digital textbook.   For your project,  scroll down the list and start looking at the (ten!) sections starting with Huddled Masses. 

Big Apple History
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/life/index-flash.html
From PBS, the two sections you want to look at here are Coming to America, and  New York Living.

Smithsonian Institute American History exhibit on Sweatshops 
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/1880.htm

Answers About Immigration on the Lower East Side
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/answers-about-immigration-on-the-lower-east-side/

Newcomers to New York
http://www.eldridgestreet.org/newcomers/
This is an interactive map that shows where different immigrant groups settled, important places to different immigrant groups, and short listening sections related to immigrant experiences.

Tenement Museum
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/virtual.html
Read about two immigrant families on the Lower East Side.  Click on the links under the pictures.

General Information about the 1920s (not Immigration)


Digital History  - The Jazz Age : The American 1920s
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=67

Politics of Prosperity - The 1920s
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture15.html

Roaring Twenties (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties

SnapShots - America in the 1920s
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpmech.htm

The 1920's - Roaring Twenties - The Nineteen Twenties in History
http://www.1920-30.com/

Automobile

Henry Ford and  Mass Production
http://www.dhahranbritish.com/History/A9_HenryFord.htm

Henry Ford and Mass Production Slide Show
http://www.dhahranbritish.com/History/A9_3_HenryFord_SS/index.html

Entertainment

Betwen the Wars: Radio
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/radio.html

Prohibition

The Politics of Prohibition : The 1920s (H102 Lecture 17)
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture17.html

Prohibition (Digital History)
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441

Women

Jazz Age: Flapper Culture and Style
http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/

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