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
- Collection Connections: After the Day of Infamy: “Man-on-the-Street” Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 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
- Guided Primary Source Analysis: Chinese Citizenship in Hawaii
- Guided Primary Source Analysis: Entrance to Manzanar
- Japanese American Internment: Fear Itself lesson plan
- Japanese American Internment During World War II primary source set with teacher’s guide
PSN Asian Pacific source sets
- Cherry Blossoms
- Hawaii
- Japanese-American Internment
- Duke Kahanamoku & Surfing & Swimming
- Patsy Mink
- Rock Springs Massacre
- Burma/Myanmar
- Cambodia
- China
- India
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Thailand (Siam)
- Vietnam
Library collections
- After the Day of Infamy: Man-on-the-Street Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Ansel Adams Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
- Behind Barbed Wire internment story map
- Asian American image set
- Genthe Collection: San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1896-1942
Online exhibitions
Veterans History Project
Primary Source Sets
- Asian American
- Chinese American
- Filipino American
- Korean American
- Modern U.S. legislation related to Japanese Americans
- Pacific Islander American
- Vietnamese American
Spotlights, Features & Special Presentations
- Asian and Pacific Island American Heritage Calendar
- Chinese in America
- Chinese and Westward Expansion
- Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1851-1900
- Immigration: Chinese & Japanese
- The Filipino Migrant Experience: Part I & Part II streaming webcast
Music, Dance & Literature
event video recordings unless noted otherwise
- Roya Bahrami: Classical Music of Persia
- Asian Multicultural Program Philippine & Burmese dance, martial arts
- Cambodian-American Heritage Dancers with Chum Ngek Ensemble
- Lao Natasinh Dance Troupe of Iowa
- Graphic Novelist & Comic Book Author & Artist Gene Luen Yang
- Novelist & Short Story Writer Jen Gish
- Children’s/Young People’s Author Janet Wong
- Poet & Children’s Author Linda Sue Park
- Poet & Memoirist Li-Young Lee
- Poet, Novelist & Critic Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
- Poet Suji Kwock Kim
- Poet Amy Uyematsu
- The South Asian Literary Recordings Project MP3 audio files
Web Guides
Library of Congress Blog posts
- Baseball Americana: Playing Behind Barbed Wire May 17, 2018
- Chinese Americans and the Gold Rush January 28, 2021
- Defiant Loyalty: Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers May 9, 2017
- Inquiring Minds: Chinese Opera in North America August 1, 2017
- Japanese-America’s Pastime: Baseball May 25, 2018
- Photos Document Japanese-American Wartime Internment May 2, 2014
- Recognizing the Service of Asian-Pacific-American Veterans May 23, 2017
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