General Resources About Asian Pacific Americans

•   UCLA Asian American Studies Center
  The Center houses a collection of research, publications, storybooks, and digital media aimed to deepen the public understanding of Asian American and Pacific Islanders. This site is maintained by the University of California, Los Angeles.

•   The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) 
  A nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible by funding, producing, distributing and exhibiting works in film, television and digital media.

• Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

  This Library of Congress online exhibit provides digital access to hundreds of photographs by distinguished photographer Ansel Adams of Japanese-American Internment camps during World War Two.

• The Chinese in California, 1850-1925

  An online exhibit from the Library of Congress, this site provides access to over 8,000 primary source images, documents, and music relating to the experiences of Chinese immigrants and descendants in California.

•  PBS Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Collection of Stories

  To celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, PBS assembled a collection of stories that explores, among international stories, the history, traditions and culture of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

Classroom Resources

• Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center: Learning Together 
  A resource “for educators and students seeking ways to include Asian American and Pacific Islander narratives in their classrooms.” 

•  Fred T. Korematsu Institute

  Obtain online resources, including a K-12 Korematsu Institute Teacher’s Guide, videos and accompanying lesson plans and posters, access to digital materials, and lesson plans on five documentaries on the Japanese American incarceration. The Institute was founded in honor of Fred Korematsu who challenged the Executive Order 9066 that sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to incarceration camps.

•  1882 Foundation

  A non-profit organization that provides lesson plans on the history and continuing significance of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

•  Pacific Link

  "Pacific Link, the KQED Asian Education Initiative, is a project of KQED Education Network (EdNet) designed to help educators and community audiences teach and learn about Asia and Asian America."

• Sources from the Ottoman Empire

  This section of the Center for History and New Media website World History Sources guides users through an in-depth analysis of two documents from the Ottoman Empire: the Gulhane Proclamation and the Ottoman "Bill of Rights."