Clarke Historical Library

Subject Cards - Emigration and Immigrant Life

• Overview
• American Society
• Arrival
• Attitudes Toward the United States
• Canada
• Catholic Church
• Civil War
• Commerce - Relationship to
• Departure from Ireland
• Depopulation
• Disease, Quarantine, & Mortality
• Immigrant Benevolent Societies & Fraternal Orders
• Inland Passage
• Labor & Economic Effects - General
• Landlords' Involvement in Emigration
• Letters Home
• Life in America
• Returning Emigrants
• Schools & Education
• Shipwrecks
• Temperance
• Transatlantic Crossing
• Treatment by Authorities & Others