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Standing Together for AAPI Heritage Month
Online resources to uplift Asian and Asian American voices, encourage self-education, and offer solace from the Smithsonian Institution. Resources for educators, exhibitions, videos, activities, blogs and more available from museums and units within the Smithsonian.
(Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center)
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Image credit: [Detail of] “Our Shared Future, Reckoning with Our Racial Past”. Dr. Felicia Bell, Smithsonian.
Selected Resources For Teachers
The Library of Congress 7Hide All
National Archives 10Hide All
- The Chinese Exclusion Act interactive book on iBooks and iTunes U course
- The Chinese Exclusion Act and Related Primary Sources
- Chinese Exclusion Broadside Analysis
- The Chinese Village Exhibit at the 1899 Export Exposition
- Contextualizing a Photograph: On Exhibit at the "Chinese Village"
- 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 19Hide All
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Perspectives within Humanities Education
- Asian American Civil Rights in Civil Rights Movements of the 20th Century
- BackStory: To Be A Citizen? The History of Becoming American
- Beyond Island Wear
- Challenging School Segregation: The Fight of Chinese Americans
- Exclusion or Inclusion? The Japanese Struggle to Own Land in California
- Guampedia (Project Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
- An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays
- Japanese American Internment Camps During WWII
- Landmarks of American History: From Immigrants to Citizens: Asian Pacific Americans in the Northwest
- 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
- NEH Division of Preservation and Access Asian-Pacific Projects
- NEH Virtual Bookshelf: Asian American and Pacific Islander Experiences
- Outside the Frame: How Asia Changed the Course of American Art (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- 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 MB]
- Find Your Place: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (.pdf) [PDF: 2.13 MB]
- “Japanese Americans in WWII” (.pdf) Theme Study [PDF: 8.68 MB]
- “WWII and the American Home Front” (.pdf) Theme Study [PDF: 4.06 MB]
- 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]