Month: April 2014
Ngram
This chart shows the mentions of German Immigrant Women, Italian Immigrant Women and Irish Immigrant women between the years of 1860 and 1920.
Spatial History and Immigration
Spatial History plays a big part in figuring out immigration history, and the patterns of immigrants and where they moved during the 1920s, the period of time which is being studied. The maps are useful in simply helping one notice patterns in migrations. Some questions that one can think about while doing spatial history is: “What made these immigrants move from the Eastern part of the United States to the South?”
This question is important in figuring out migration patterns in the United States in the 1920s, to figure out where immigrants move, in order to further research WHY these immigrants moved from one place to another. For the digital history project, we are studying migration history of Italian and Irish immigrants, and the roles of women in society. Using spatial history, we are not only able to figure out where these immigrants settled, but we are able to go in depth and see the different counties of different cities and states and see the exact locations of these immigrants.
This is helpful in figuring out the neighborhood patterns of different immigrants, and how families of different ethnic groups lived closer together in certain neighborhoods. One case can be named for Germantown, a neighborhood in Philadelphia. The huge populations of German immigrants still live there to this day. This trend of neighborhoods around the United States is able to help us with our research and notice that generations stay in the same neighborhood and continue this trend. Other cities of different ethnic groups include the Italian population in Brooklyn and the Bronx and the Irish population in the North-East portion of the United States including states such as Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia.
Irish Born Americans in United States
Hot Dog Places in Chicago
Foreign Born Females in 1920
The data above shows the number of females born outside of the United States in the year 1920. The data was taken from the University of Virginia library and the way to best describe the data, is that the states that are listed on the graph are states which all have 20,000 or more foreign-born females according to the census.
This data is useful to the group project because we can now narrow our focus down on a region in the United States because we know their female population. Furthermore, we can research certain sources that deal with the region that can be interpreted from the chart above.
Ivan Avramovic 
