Asian Pacific American Historical Society

11/03/2018

05/27/2018

Comic books and graphic novels belong in every teacher's toolkit, says cartoonist and educator Gene Luen Yang. Set against the backdrop of his own witty, colorful drawings, Yang explores the history of comics in American education -- and reveals some unexpected insights about their potential for hel...

05/26/2018

05/26/2018

The Chinese Exclusion Act remained in force for more than 60 years.

01/24/2018

Genealogy

Jennifer Mendelsohn urges people to embrace immigration as part of the American story -- and calls out people whose rhetoric doesn't match up with their history

12/31/2017

Raising Culturally Responsive and Responsible Children Leave a Comment Given the ever-increasing diversity in our nation and schools, it is essential for parents to address their children’s cultural development. Although engendering cultural awareness and sensitivity in all children is important, ...

12/13/2017

Dragon Road - another great book from Laurence Yep’s Golden Mountain Chronicle series

Yep adds to his ongoing Golden Mountain Chronicles with this absorbing tale of a basketball team that leaves San Francisco's Chinatown to barnstorm across California and the West in 1939.

12/09/2017

In an NPR poll looking at experience with discrimination, Asian-Americans told us that individual prejudice is a bigger problem than bias by government or laws.

09/11/2017

Want to inspire your students to write? Here's an opportunity to write about something meaningful and for an audience beyond the classroom.

09/09/2017

09/05/2017

Asian undocumented immigrants account for about 14% of the total undocumented population in the United States. Also, about 1 out of every 7 Asian immigrants is undocumented.

08/18/2017

The violent protests by N**i sympathizers and White supremacists this weekend in Virginia ended in three dead and a number of people injured. Waiting to treat the injured was a…