The Immigration History Research Center: A Guide to Collections

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This book provides a summary of and guide to the archival and library holdings of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. The Center has been a valuable resource for researchers for over twenty-five years. This guide will be a useful aid to those researching topics on immigration, ethnicity, labor, women, religion, journalism, education, and other areas of American social and cultural history. The volume includes chapters on separate ethnic groups. Each chapter reflects the organization of the collections and finding aids at the Center and includes descriptions of manuscripts, monograph, newspaper, and serial holdings for the individual ethnic groups. An index provides access to the material.

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As a starting place for those seeking to understand the role of material culture in the crafting of Italian-American ethnicity, it has substantial value.-The Journal of American History
The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) contains one of the largest collections of sources devoted to European immigration even though its material is confined to immigrants from southern, eastern, and central Europe (excluding Germany) as well as the Near East during the turn of the century. As a result this guide is more narrowly focused than European Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States and Canada, . ed. By D.L. Brye (1983) or John D. Buenker's Immigration and Ethnicity: A Guide to Information Sources. Wurl and Moody, the IHRC's curator and project director respectively, expand upon the "Ethnic Bibliography Series" and the "Record Survey Guides" begun by IHRC in 1976. This work devotes a chapter to summarizing the archival and library holdings on each of the 23 ethnic groups covered at the Center. Each chapter includes a manuscript collection description, bibliographic essay on monographs, and a listing of newspaper and serials holdings. Foreign-language titles are translated into English. A drawback of this otherwise thorough resource is that the index does not include author-title information from the monographic essays or individual listings of newspapers and serials. Recommended for graduate and research level collections.-Choice
This guide is a must for anyone researching the ethnic groups it covers.-National Genealogical Society Quarterly
"As a starting place for those seeking to understand the role of material culture in the crafting of Italian-American ethnicity, it has substantial value."-The Journal of American History
"This guide is a must for anyone researching the ethnic groups it covers."-National Genealogical Society Quarterly
"The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) contains one of the largest collections of sources devoted to European immigration even though its material is confined to immigrants from southern, eastern, and central Europe (excluding Germany) as well as the Near East during the turn of the century. As a result this guide is more narrowly focused than European Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States and Canada, . ed. By D.L. Brye (1983) or John D. Buenker's Immigration and Ethnicity: A Guide to Information Sources. Wurl and Moody, the IHRC's curator and project director respectively, expand upon the "Ethnic Bibliography Series" and the "Record Survey Guides" begun by IHRC in 1976. This work devotes a chapter to summarizing the archival and library holdings on each of the 23 ethnic groups covered at the Center. Each chapter includes a manuscript collection description, bibliographic essay on monographs, and a listing of newspaper and serials holdings. Foreign-language titles are translated into English. A drawback of this otherwise thorough resource is that the index does not include author-title information from the monographic essays or individual listings of newspapers and serials. Recommended for graduate and research level collections."-Choice

Author Bio

JOEL WURL is curator of the archives at the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. SUZANNA MOODY is a self-employed indexer. She has also worked for the State Revisor's Office in Minnesota.