Asian Pacific American Heritage
     
  Links to related primary sources from the Library of Congress  
     
     
  Web Guides
  1. Asian Reading Room
  2. Asian Collections: An Illustrated Guide
  3. Asian Country Studies
 
     
     
  Global Gateway
  1. Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy
  2. The Naxi Manuscript Collection
  3. Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
 
     
     
  Exhibitions
  1. World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
  2. Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
  3. On the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Japanese Prints
  4. The Floating World of Ukiyo-E: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
 
     
     
  American Memory Collections
  1. Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
  2. Chinese in California, 1850-1925
  3. After the Day of Infamy: Man-on-the-Street Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
  4. Suffering Under a Great Unjustice: Ansel Adams Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
 
     
     
  Veterans History Project
  1. Asian Pacific Americans: Going for Broke
 
     
     
  Lesson Plans & Activities
  1. Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
  2. Collection Connections: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
  3. Collection Connections: Chinese in California
  4. Collection Connections: Around the World in the 1890s
  5. Collection Connections: After the Pearl Harbor Attack
 
     
     
  Spotlights, Features & Special Presentations
  1. Asian Pacific Americans   (intellectual historian)
  2. Asian and Pacific Island American Heritage Calendar
  3. Macau a Selection of Cartographic Images
  4. Immigration: Chinese & Japanese
  5. World War II - Japanese American Internment
  6. Chinese and Westward Expansion
  7. Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1851-1900
 
     
     
  Images
  1. Genthe Collection: San Francisco's Chinatown, 1896-1942   (search using keyword "Chinatown")
  2. Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
  3. Japanese Fine Prints, pre-1915
  4. College Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection
 
     
     
  Today in History
  1. Nixon in China
  2. The Harris Treaty
  3. Potomac Blossoms
  4. Rock Springs Massacre
 
     
     
  Articles
  1. Naxi: The World's Only Living Pictographic Language
  2. In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
  3. People of the 38th District of California
  4. Voices of Asia
  5. Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, IL
  6. Ching Ming Tradition in Hawaii
  7. Dorothea Lange at the Relocation Camps
  8. Frank Lloyd Wright Looks to Japan
  9. Chop Suey Was Invented, Fact or Fiction?
  10. Portland's Chinese New Year
 
     
     
  Music, Dance & Literature   (streaming RealVideo ® & MP3 audio files)
  1. Roya Bahrami: Classical Music of Persia
  2. Asian Multicultural Program   (Philippine & Burmese dance, martial arts)
  3. Lao Natasinh Dance Troupe of Iowa
  4. The South Asian Literary Recordings Project   (MP3 audio files)
  5. Novelist & Short Story Writer Jen Gish
  6. Poet & Children's Author Linda Sue Park
  7. Children's/Young People's Author Janet Wong
  8. Graphic Novelist & Comic Book Author & Artist Gene Luen Yang
  9. Poet & Memoirist Li-Young Lee
  10. Poet, Novelist & Critic Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
  11. Poet Suji Kwock Kim
  12. Poet Amy Uyematsu
  13. Interview with Four Women Poets - Rose Solari, Hilary Tham, Karren Alenier, and Kim Roberts
 
     
     
  Webcasts   (streaming RealVideo®)
  1. The Filipino Migrant Experience: Part I & Part II
  2. Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Celebration
  3. Thich Nhat Hanh: Leading with Courage and Compassion
  4. The Ideological Context of U.S.-China Relations
  5. The Druze Heritage: Part I, Part II, Part III & Part IV
 
     
     
  Congressional Activity
Information and remarks on the celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month can be found by using the keywords "asian pacific american" search legislation from multiple Congresses. 		 
     
     
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Adams, Ansel. "Roy Takeno reading paper in front of office." 1943. Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. 		 
     
     
 
Bleau, William. "Map of the continent of Asia from Toonneel des Aerdriicx." 1635. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. 		 
     
     
 
"Fan Map Showing China, Japan, and Korea in the 1870s." Miscellaneous Oriental Collection, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. 		 
     
     
 
West, George. "View of Green Island, Macau." 1844. Caleb Cushing Collection, Library of Congress Manuscript Division. 		 
     
     
 
"Map of Korean Peninsula." Circa 1800. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. 		 
     
     
 
Tibetan Books Starting the Journey to the Library of Congress." 1926. Rock Collection, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. 		 
     
     
 
"A Selection of Pamphlets on Bangladesh's Independence Movement." Circa 1971-1972. Southern Asian Pamphlet Collection, Library of Congress Asian Division. 		 
     
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