TEAACH Act & Asian American Resources : TEAACH Act & Resources for Teaching AAPI History

includes short interview (6:49) with Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz

Lesson Plans and Videos

Includes videos and more

Created for K-12 teachers, This page serves as an online venue for educational content It features interviews with AAPI community experts and members, links to community-created educational resources, book recommendations, classroom discussion ideas, and more.

Fantastic set of resources funded by he NEH.

"Browse ready-to-use lesson plans, student activities, collection guides and research aids. Includes curated resources from The Library of Congress, National Archives, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, and Smithsonian Institution."

Video, photos, stories & more

Archive of resources documenting, preserving, and sharing stories of South Asian Americans

Densho documents the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, couples with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy, and promote equal justice for all.

Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. As America becomes more diverse, and more divided while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate personal stories, the series will cast a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played.

Discover the story of Japanese-Americans who protested the loss of their constitutional rights during internment at Tule Lake Segregation Center.

Attacks against Asian Americans date back to the 19th century, but it was the murder of Vincent Chin in 1982 that mobilized the Asian community to fight for their civil rights. At the time, America was losing manufacturing jobs fast while Japan’s auto industry was on the rise. Chin was Chinese, but that didn’t stop two white men from beating him to death a few days before his wedding

This is a thoughtful, expansive video series that can be used in the classroom and in community discussions. This resource addresses the following topics in 8 individual videos:

Asian-Black Solidarity Movements for Liberation
The Model Minority Myth
Occupation of the the Hawaiian Kingdom
Southeast Asian American Experiences in the US
Queer and Asian Identities
Filipinx Americans as Cross-Coalition Builders
South Asian American Experiences in the US
The Racialization of Undocumented Asians
The Bamboo Ceiling
Important Court Cases in Asian Pacific American History
Caste in the United States

The filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña discusses the Atlanta shootings, the murder of Vincent Chin, and the complexities of Asian identity in the United States.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dale Minami, lawyer and former Asian American studies professor at U.C. Berkeley, about the history of anti-Asian sentiment in the United States.

Rise of violence, harassment amid pandemic part of continuing tale of racism in U.S.

Singled out for failing a ‘loyalty’ test, Japanese Americans incarcerated in a high-security U.S. prison camp during WWII are shedding the stigma and reclaiming their stories

Fact Sheets in Asians in the US