Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The National Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Asian and Pacific Islander experience, and it highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.
The theme for 2021 is Advancing Leaders Through Purpose-Driven Service.
Prologue Articles
Broken Blossoms (Spring 2016)
Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates (Summer 2012)
When the "Enemy" Landed at Angel Island (Summer 2009)
Return to Sender: U.S. Censorship of Enemy Alien Mail in World War II (Spring 2001)
An Alleged Wife: One Immigrant in the Chinese Exclusion Era (Spring 2004)
Race, Nationality, and Reality: INS Administration of Racial Provisions in U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law Since 1898 (Summer 2002)
The Past Recaptured? The Photographic Record of the Internment of Japanese-Americans (Summer 1980)
Prologue “Genealogy Notes” on Immigration and Naturalization
Flickr images
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month photos and documents from the National Archives.
Additional Resources
Videos
Author Erika Lee discusses her book The Making of Asian America, October 2, 2015
A Conversation with George Takei: George Takei in Hyde Park, February 19, 2017
Japanese American Internment Teachable Moment video from the FDR Library
Oh, the Stories They Tell: Chinese Exclusion Acts Case Files at the National Archives