- Campuses :
- Twin Cities
- Crookston
- Duluth
- Morris
- Rochester
- Other Locations
Immigration History Research Center
ihrc@umn.edu
612-625-4800
ihrc@umn.edu
612-625-4800
- Who We Are
- Scholarly Collaboration
- Research Collections
- Publications
- For Educators & Students
- For the Community
- Support the IHRC
Read the IHRC Newsletter
Friends of the IHRC
The Immigration History Research Center promotes interdisciplinary research on international migration, develops archives documenting immigrant and refugee life, especially in the U.S., and makes specialized scholarship accessible to students, teachers, and the public.
Scholarly Initiatives
Director's Fall 2012 message- Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration seminars
- Course list by semester (IHRC & Global REM)
- Supporting heritage preservation
- Minnesota 2.0 - Immigrant and refugee youth on Facebook
- Sheeko - Somali youth oral histories
- Spotlight on Selected Sources
- Digitizing Immigrant Letters
Connect with us online
Translating Love
Notices
A major honor for Erika Lee
Congratulations to Erika Lee who has been awarded the Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award in Humanities, Arts and Sciences for 2012 at the University of Minnesota. Join us at the awards program on Oct. 12 if you're in the Twin Cities.
(Continue Reading)September 20th, 2012Director Lee Awarded Speaker and Specialist Grant
Director Erika Lee has been awarded a U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grant by the U.S. State Department. This grant--given by invitation to American experts in a given field to present lectures, serve as consultants, or conduct workshops and seminars for professional overseas audiences--will allow Prof. Lee to travel to Taiwan in September.
(Continue Reading)September 14th, 2012Aronson & Associates Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund Accepting Proposals
The Aronson & Associates Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund is now accepting grant proposals. The deadline is Friday, September 28, 2012, and it is the goal of the committee to announce awards by early November 2012.
(Continue Reading)August 16th, 2012
Collections Quick Search
Archives
Finding aids are online guides to the collections in the IHRC Archives.
- Orientation for researchers (PDF) to use IHRC Collections.
- Consultations with collection staff by appointment. IHRC Hours
- Make an appointment.
Digital Sources
Search thousands of photographs, illustrations, texts, and other archival materials selected from the IHRC collections using the UMedia Archive.
- Orientation for researchers (PDF) to use IHRC Collections.
- Consultations with collection staff by appointment. IHRC Hours
- Make an appointment.
Books
IHRC books are catalogued by the University of Minnesota Libraries and their bibliographic records are accessible in the online public access catalogue MNCAT.
- Orientation for researchers (PDF) to use IHRC Collections.
- Consultations with collection staff by appointment. IHRC Hours
- Make an appointment.
Periodicals
- Orientation for researchers (PDF) to use IHRC Collections.
- Consultations with collection staff by appointment. IHRC Hours
- Make an appointment.
Collection Notes
IHRC receives award from the Society of American Archivists
On August 10, the IHRC formally received the Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award from the Society of American Archivists at its annual meeting held in San Diego, California this year.
(Continue Reading)August 21st, 2012Microfilm Duplication Order Deadline is August 15, 2012
The IHRC will temporarily stop accepting microfilm duplications orders as of Aug. 15, 2012, so that a new quality vendor can be located and ordering processes can be restructured.
(Continue Reading)July 12th, 2012
Events
-
- Transnational Youth in Oaxaca: Linguistic and Educational Explorations
- 09/26/2012 3:00 PM
- Location: 121 Folwell Hall
-
- IHRC Director's Reception
- 10/23/2012 4:30 PM
- Location: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
-
- Louis Mendoza discusses his book "A Journey Around Our America"
- 10/25/2012 4:00 PM
- Location: U of M Bookstore Coffman Memorial Union
-
- Friends of the IHRC 35th Annual Meeting
- 11/10/2012 6:00 PM
- Location: Croatian Hall, 445 Second Ave S, South St Paul, MN 55075
-
- Donna Gabaccia discusses her book "Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective"
- 11/13/2012 3:30 PM
- Location: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
