Germans and Irish in
Augusta and Franklin Counties

Group Three: German and Irish Immigrants in the Newspapers of Augusta County, Virginia

Go to the Newspaper Transcriptions on Immigration in Augusta County. The address is (http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/vshadow2/Browser1/aubrowser/au.topic.immigrants.html.

Read and summarize all of the articles, using the chart below.

If you have time, after you have read and summarized all of the transcribed articles, go to the Newspaper Search Page. (http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/vshadow2/news/news2.html.)

For both the Staunton Spectator and the Republican Vindicator, search ALL years for the words Irish, Irishman, German, Catholic, Catholics, immigrant, Know Nothing, and Know-Nothing. Searching this way will give you a list of links to abstracts of newspapers that have these words in them.

Click the dates to go to the newspaper abstracts, then use your browser's "find" function to search for the actual word that you searched by.

Carefully fill out this chart as you read the transcribed articles and abstracts.

Name, date, and page of newspaper
Summary of Article
Conclusions: What this article tells you about immigration during this time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


This material was developed by Alice Carter for the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education.