Here are some links to Websites that relate to the material in this chapter. Click around to broaden your understanding of the topics in this section by seeing what’s out there on the Web!

• I Hear America Sing
  American music came into its own in the early 20th century, as this fascinating site demonstrates.
  

• Orphan Trains
  First hand accounts, newspaper accounts and several secondary sources on this reform effort to improve the lives of children in the eastern cities and to end poverty.
  

• American Identities
  Find resources for studying America’s multiple ethnic identities on this site.
  

• Liz Szabo "My Heart Bleeds To Tell It All:" Women, Domesticity, And The American Ideal In Mary Anne Sadlier's "Romance Of Irish Immigration"
  A paper about a novel about an Irish woman immigrant. The novel was written in 1861 and can be used to compare the lives of later immigrants.
  

• Ellis Island
  This History Channel site details the Ellis Island experience.
  

• Historical Background Of The Census
  A brief overview of how the census is done and the process has changed over the last two centuries.
  

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