Primary Source Learning: Asian American Pacific Islanders

Primary Source Sets with Teacher Guides

• Japanese American Internment During World War II
• Veterans’ Stories: Struggles for Participation

Guided Primary Source Analyses

• Chinese Citizenship in Hawaii
• Entrance to Manzanar

Collection Connections

• After the Day of Infamy: “Man-on-the-Street” Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

Lesson Plans

• Analysis and Interpretation of Primary Sources Related to Internment during WWII
• Japanese American Internment: Fear Itself
• Learning from the Source: Perspectives on U.S. Expansion
• Which is more important, individual privacy or public safety? C3 Inquiry

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Primary Source Spotlight: Asian American Pacific Islanders History & Heritage