Traditionally, history has been told through the perspective and to the advantage of the people whose position and privilege have given them the dominate voice.  The purpose of this page is to provide history resources that: 

                         a)   examine or challenge the traditionally presented view of history and/or 

                         b)   include the voices of people whose lived experiences have been misrepresented or excluded. 

 

The Biography & History section includes books and media resources on topics that are currently being reexamined.

 

The Curriculum & Instruction section provides resources individuals, parents, and teachers can use to reexamine traditional understandings. 

Biography & History

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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”

Carter G. Woodson

Angel Island:  Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman.

 

A Different Mirror:  A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki.

 

A New History of Asian America by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee.

 

Escape to Gold Mountain:  A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America, nonfiction graphic novel.

 

Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi.

 

Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress by Murray, Alice Yang, Stanford University Press. (Available upon request from local library.  Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will request for patrons.  $5.00 postage fee.)

 

Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee

 

Rethinking the Asian American Movement (American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century) by Daryl Joji Maeda.

 

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Media​

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A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms by Olivia B. Waxman, Time, online article.

 

Angel Island, U.S. Immigration Station, National Park Service, website.

 

An Unnoticed Struggle: A Concise History of Asian American Civil Rights Issues, Japanese American Citizen League, online booklet, website.   

 

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the U.S., NEH.GOV, EDSITEMENT!, website.

 

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Theme Students, National Park Service, Series of 16 online Essays, website.

 

Asian American Milestones:  Timeline, with links to resource information, History.Com Editors, website.

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Better Lives, Bitter Lies, National Park Service, podcast.

 

Different Asian American Timeline, online tool for exploring the history of Asians and Asian Americans starting in the 1400’s, website.  

 

Filipino American Farmworksers Fight for Their Rights: Asian Americans, coalition building with Mexican American farmworkers, PBS LearningMedia video.

 

Finding a Path Forward:  Asian American Pacific Islander National Historic Landmarks Theme Study edited by Franklin Odo, Immigration, Exclusion, and Resistance by Erika Lee, National Park Service, online essay.

 

“I Don’t Like China or Chinese People Because They Started This Quarantine” The History of Anti-Chinese Racism and Disease in the United States by Wayne Au, rethinking schools, website article.

 

Income Inequality is the U.S. is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians by Rakesh Kochhar and Anthony Cilluffo, Pew Research Center, website.

 

Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement, Calisphere, Digital Objects: text and photographs of relocation centers, and map of geography of incarceration, website.

 

Japanese-American Internment, FDR Library Video Collection,  Japanese American Internment (with Captions), FDR and WWII, Part 4, Japanese-American Internment,  Executive Order 9066 – Japanese American Internment, A Conversation with George Takei:  Life in the Camps, YouTube videos.

 

Japanese American WWII Incarceration:  The Core Story, Encyclopedia Topic Index, Digital Archives, Oral History Video Interviews, Densho website.

 

Redefine American:  Asian Americans, California Supreme Court case contesting racial segregation of schools, PBS LearningMedia video.

 

Scapegoating of Asian Americans, The Harvard Gazette, online article.

 

Stanley Hayami: Nisei Son—His Diary, Letters, & Story: From American Concentration Camp to Battlefield, 1942-1945, annotated by Joanne Oppenheim, Japanese American National Museum, website.

 

Supreme Court Overturned a Ruling that Enabled Internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II, Time, online article.

 

United Farm Workers (UFW) Movement:  Philip Vera Cruz, Unsung Hero, UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

 

Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian American Civil Rights website.

 

Ugly History:  Japanese American Incarceration Camps - Densho, by Tom Ikeda, YouTube, TED-ED, video.

 

Vincent Chin’s Story/Lily Chin:  The Courage to Speak Out, The Asian American Education Project.

 

You’re Asian, How Could You Fail Math? Unmasking the Myth of the Model Minority by Wayne Au and Benji Chang, rethinking schools, website article.

 

 

Curriculum & Instruction

“Education creates the voice through which human rights can be claimed and protected.”

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Curriculum

Instruction

Asian Americans K-12 Education Curriculum with lesson plans, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates website.

 

A Different Mirror for Young People:  A History of Multicultural America by Ronal Takaki, adapted by Rebecca Steffoff.

 

A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

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After Atlanta:  Teaching About Asian American Identity and History by Elizabeth Kleinrock, Learning for Justice, contains links to resources, online article.

 

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Making of the Nation, Biographies of AAPI Women, An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during WWII, National Park Service, webpage. 

 

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Exhibits and Collections; Teacher Resources includes primary source documents; Images, Library of Congress, website.

 

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the National Portrait Gallery created by Nicole Vance, National Portrait Gallery, website.

 

Asian American and Pacific Islander Materials: A Resource Guide, Library of Congress, website.

 

UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Untold Civil Rights Stories (16 stories with lesson plans), 

 

Timeline of national, international events, and events in ethnic America, The Asian American Education Project website.

 

Asian American Heritage “in real life,” web series Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, recordings of web series, website.

 

Asian Americans, PBS LearningMedia, Collection of 37 videos with Lesson Plans.

 

Asian American PBS LearningMedia Resources, may be filtered by grade and subject, online web search. 

 

Challenging Caricatures:  Images of Queen Lili’uokalani, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, website. 

 

Densho Learning Center:  Resource Guide, Examining Racism and Discrimination Through Oral History, Sites of Shame, Digital Repository (searchable collection of photographs, document, newspapers, letters and other primary source martials from immigration to the WWII incarceration and its aftermath) website.

 

EDSITEment! NEH.Gov., History, Culture, and Heritage Teacher Guides: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the U.S.

 

Hidden Histories, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, website.

 

“History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.” Why the Asian-American Story is Missing from Many U.S. Classrooms, Time, online article.

 

Immigrant History Initiative, Wayfinding & Storytelling Lesson Plan Topics:  AP US History Lessons, Chinese American History Curriculum, Anti-Asian Racism & Covid-19, website.

 

Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans:  Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classroom and Communities, Zinn Education Project.

 

Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans:  Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments or Classroom Communities, by Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Glenn Omatsu.    

 

We Are Not a Stereotype:  Breaking Down Asian Pacific American Bias, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, video series.

 

​Zinn Education Project:  Teaching People’s History, website resources of free downloadable lessons and articles organized and searchable by theme, time period, and grade level.  Links to Search Results for Asian American, Pacific Islander.