What can be learned from historic newspapers about immigration policies of the past?
ImmigrationArchive.com, a free archive of 50,000 historical newspaper pages, is one of the most comprehensive research resources on the history of immigration available on the web. As the topic of immigration continues to be a frontrunner in politics and in the media, ImmigrationArchive.com provides historic newspaper articles on: • Chinese Exclusion Act from 1882 • Opening and closing of Ellis Island • Immigration Act of 1924 • Controversial Immigration and Nationality Act from 1952 • Immigration Act of 1965 that overturned the Act of 1924 • Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986 that granted amnesty to people who illegally immigrated to the US before 1982 • Thousands of other headlines on immigration With the use of Optical Character Recognition technology, researchers can quickly obtain articles about immigration by searching with key words or dates. For example, to find articles on Elian Gonzalez, a Cuban refugee whose plight was brought into the media spotlight in 2000, resear
