Celebrate the history and diverse cultures of Asian Pacific Americans through the foci of primary source images, documents, oral histories, and more. You’ll also find related lesson plans, stories, interactives, and streaming webcasts–come explore!
Lesson plans & activity ideas
- Japanese American Internment (lesson plan)
- Japanese American Internment During World War II (primary source set with teacher’s guide)
- Collection Connections: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
- Chinese in California 1850-1925: collection connections search for collection items with this finding aid
- Collection Connections: Around the World in the 1890s
- Collection Connections: After the Pearl Harbor Attack
- Featured Source: Entrance to Manzanar guided primary source analysis activities
PSN Asian Pacific source sets
- Cherry Blossoms
- Hawaii
- Japanese-American Internment
- Duke Kahanamoku & Surfing & Swimming
- Rock Springs Massacre
- Burma/Myanmar
- Cambodia
- China
- India
- Japan
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Thailand (Siam)
- Vietnam
Library collections
- Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World’s Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
- After the Day of Infamy: Man-on-the-Street Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Suffering Under a Great Unjustice: Ansel Adams Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Prints & Photographs collections
- Asian American image set
- Genthe Collection: San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1896-1942
- Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
- Japanese Fine Prints, pre-1915
- College Women’s Association of Japan Print Show Collection
Global Gateway collections
- Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy
- The Naxi Manuscript Collection
- Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
Online exhibitions
- World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
- Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
- Sakura: Cherry Blossoms as Living Symbols of Friendship
- On the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Japanese Prints
- The Floating World of Ukiyo-E: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
Veterans History Project
Asian American legislation
Spotlights, Features & Special Presentations
- Asian and Pacific Island American Heritage Calendar
- Macau a Selection of Cartographic Images
- Immigration: Chinese & Japanese
- Chinese and Westward Expansion
- Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1851-1900
- The Filipino Migrant Experience: Part I & Part II (streaming webcast)
Music, Dance & Literature
(streaming webcast unless noted otherwise)
- Roya Bahrami: Classical Music of Persia
- Asian Multicultural Program (Philippine & Burmese dance, martial arts)
- Lao Natasinh Dance Troupe of Iowa
- The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (MP3 audio files)
- Novelist & Short Story Writer Jen Gish
- Children’s/Young People’s Author Janet Wong
- Poet & Children’s Author Linda Sue Park
- Graphic Novelist & Comic Book Author & Artist Gene Luen Yang
- Poet & Memoirist Li-Young Lee
- Poet, Novelist & Critic Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
- Poet Suji Kwock Kim
- Poet Amy Uyematsu
- Interview with Four Women Poets – Rose Solari, Hilary Tham, Karren Alenier, and Kim Roberts
Web Guides
Library Blog Posts
- Baseball Americana: Playing Behind Barbed Wire Library of Congress May 17, 2018
- Defiant Loyalty: Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers Library of Congress May 9, 2017
- Japanese-America’s Pastime: Baseball Library of Congress May 25, 2018
- Photos Document Japanese-American Wartime Internment Library of Congress May 2, 2014
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