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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's Learning Together Page
Image credit: PJ Gubatina Policarpio and Ida Noelle Calumpang lead CrossLines visitors through an activity at Hinabi: Philippine Textiles Lab. Photo by Les Talusan for Smithsonian APA Center's CrossLines Culture Lab in May, 2016.
Selected Resources For Teachers
The Library of Congress 8Hide All
National Archives 7Hide All
- The Chinese Exclusion Act interactive book on iBooks and iTunes U Course
- The Chinese Exclusion Act and Related Primary Sources
- Petition Against Annexation of Hawaii
- Primary sources and teaching activities on the Vietnam War
- Primary sources related to Chinese immigration to the United States
- Primary sources related to Hawaii
- Primary sources related to Japanese internment during World War II
National Endowment for the Humanities 14Hide All
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the U.S.
- BackStory: To Be A Citizen? The History of Becoming American
- Beyond Island Wear
- Guampedia (Project Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
- Highlights of Preservation & Access Division Projects
- An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays
- Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant Class in Edo Period Japan
- Lu Shih: The Couplets of T'ang
- Outside the Frame: How Asia Changed the Course of American Art (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Poetry lesson: “Peaches” by Adrienne Su
- Preserving Asian-American History and Culture 2013
- Tanka: Japanese Poetry
- The World of Haiku
National Gallery of Art 5Hide All
National Park Service 10Hide All
- “Breathing Fire”: Asian/Pacific American Chapter from the LGBTQ Theme Study
- “A Brief Glimpse: Asian American Pacific Islander National Historic Landmarks Theme Study” (.pdf) (PDF, 2.51 MBs)
- Find Your Place: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (.pdf) (PDF, 2.13 MBs)
- “Japanese Americans in WWII” (.pdf) Theme Study (PDF, 8.68 MBs)
- “WWII and the American Home Front” (.pdf) Theme Study (PDF, 4.06 MBs)
- Internment: Forced Relocation of Japanese-Americans
- Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California
- Teaching with Historic Places: Lessons on Asian American and Pacific Islander History
- The War Relocation Centers of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice
- Asian Reflections on the American Landscape: Identifying Asian Heritage (PDF, 944 KB)