Immigration History Research Center Archives

Frank Jankac, Amy King, and Matthew Reza are this year's Immigration History Research Center Archives' Grant-in-Aid Awardees, and Rosaria Frankco is this year's awardee of the Michael J. Karni Scholarship.

The University of Minnesota Libraries is partnering with Adam Matthew Digital to make some of its rich primary source material available for undergraduate research...

By Kirsten Buvala Project Manager, Immigration History Research Center Archives I have had the great fortune to be project manager for a digitization project here at...

By Daniel Necas Archivist, Immigration History Research Center Archives Between September 15 and October 14, the IHRC Archives hosted two archivists from the National Archives of...

Matteo Brera, Jerry Grzybowski, Aleksej Kalc, and Gregory Shibley are the IHRC Archives' Grant-in-Aid awardees and Samira Saramo received the IHRC's Karni Scholarship from the University of Minnesota.

In 1999, the Immigration History Research Center acquired a collection of materials accumulated by the recently closed Refugee Studies Center (RSC), a research center established at the University of Minnesota in 1980. The Center focused its attention primarily on newly arriving refugees from Southeast Asia, following the war in Vietnam.

By Ellen Engseth Curator, Immigration History Research Center Archives and Head, Migration and Social Services Collections Curious about Italian immigrants settling in Rock Springs, Wyoming? Read...

Although archival professionals anticipate that researchers may face any number of challenges (language, format, condition, location, access restrictions, etc.) when working with special collections, this reality often comes as a surprise to new researchers. Assistant Archivist Jamie L. Hoehn explains her firsthand experience.

Ellen Engseth excerpts from seasonal letters that are in the Migration and Social Services Collections at the University of Minnesota, including those from our curated collection of emotional transnational correspondence dating from the later 19th and into the 20th century, a collection called Digitizing Immigrant Letters.

The Immigration History Research Center Archives, with our colleague Immigration History Research Center, celebrates 50 years this fall at the University of Minnesota.

The Immigration History Research Center Archives is commemorating the centennial of the Armenian Genocide with an exhibit, a research guide, and an event on October 21.

The Immigration History Research Center Archives announces its Grant-in-Aid Awards for 2015-2016. The program is open to scholars of all levels, including independent scholars, and supports a research visit of five days or more.

The Immigration History Research Center Archives (IHRCA) is very pleased to announce a major addition to their collections, the Records of the Polanie Club of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

By Ellen Engseth Curator, Immigration History Research Center Archives and Head, Migration and Social Services Collections October 30 was something of a “Finnish - American Day” here...

The Immigration History Research Center Archives is pleased to announce the opening of the Alexander Granovsky Papers, and is hosting an exhibit of selections from the papers of Professor Granovksy which reflect his lifelong work with Ukrainians in the United States and the diaspora. Granovsky worked tirelessly to further knowledge of Ukrainian culture and heritage, and his collection provides a wealth of information to today’s researchers.

By Daniel Necas, Archivist, Immigration History Research Center Archives An invitation to a workshop (and a kind offer by the organizers from Coventry University to...