Databases
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspaper
JSTOR
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
Project Muse
PubMed Central
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Journal of American Ethnic History
New England Journal of Medicine
New York History Journal
Articles
Bateman-House, A., & Fairchild, A. (2008). Medical examination of immigrants at Ellis Island. AMA Journal of Ethics, 10(4), 235-241.
Baynton, D. (2005). Defectives in the land: Disability and American immigration policy, 1882-1924. Journal of American Ethnic History, 24(3), 31-44.
Markel, H. (2000). “The eyes have it”: Trachoma, the perception of disease, the United States Public Health Service, and the American Jewish immigration experience, 1897-1924. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74(3), 525-560.
Moore, H. (2009). Contagion from abroad: U.S. newspaper framings of immigrants and epidemics, 1891 to 1893. Atlanta Review of Journalism History, 8, 32–89.
Mullan, E. H. (1917). Mental examination of immigrants: Administration and line inspection at Ellis Island. Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 32(20), 733-746. doi:10.2307/4574515
Richardson, J. T. (2003). Howard Andrew Knox and the origins of performance testing on Ellis Island, 1912-1916. History of Psychology, 6(2), 143-170.
Yew, E. (1980). Medical inspection of immigrants at Ellis Island, 1891-1924. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 56(5), 488-510.
Reference Books
Ciment, J., & Radzilowski, J. (Eds.). (2015). American immigration: An encyclopedia of political, social, and cultural change. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
Hayes, P. J. (Ed.). (2012). The making of modern immigration: An encyclopedia of people and ideas (Vols. 1-2). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Loue, S. & Sajatovic, M. (Eds.). (2012). Encyclopedia of immigrant health. London, UK: Springer.
Moreno, B. (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of Ellis Island. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
New York Public Library. (2003). The New York Public Library American history desk reference (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Hyperion.
Powell, J. (2005). Encyclopedia of North American immigration. New York, NY: Facts on File, Inc.
Books
Bayor, R. H. (2014). Encountering Ellis Island: How European immigrants entered America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University.
Brownstone, D. M., Franck, I. M., & Brownstone, D. L. (1979). Island of hope, island of tears. New York, NY: Rawson, Wade Publishers.
Cannato, V. J. (2010). American passage: The history of Ellis Island. New York, NY: Harper Perennial.
Coan, P. M. (2015). Ellis Island interviews: Immigrants tell their stories in their own words. New York, NY: Fall River Press.
Conway, L. (2007). Forgotten Ellis Island: The extraordinary story of America’s immigrant hospital. New York, NY: Smithsonian Books: Collins, 2007.
Fairchild, A. L. (2003). Science at the borders: Immigrant medical inspection and the shaping of the modern industrial labor force. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Kraut, A. M. (1995). Silent travelers: Germs, genes, and the immigrant menace. United Kingdom: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Richardson, J. T. E. (2011). Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer of intelligence testing at Ellis Island. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Web Resources
Ellis Island: Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument. Retrieved from https://www.nps.gov/elis/index.htm
Library of Congress. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov
National Archives. Retrieved from https://catalog.archives.gov/
Save Ellis Island. Retrieved from https://www.saveellisisland.org/
Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation. Retrieved from https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/
Medicine on Ellis Island 