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Asian American Art Oral History Project
From DePaul University, this is a collection of oral history interview transcripts. The primary focus of the archive is to document the history of Midwestern Asian American artists and arts organizations.
Asian Pacific Americans: Going for Broke (Veterans History Project)
From the Library of Congress website: Asian Pacific Americans have made lasting contributions to America’s wartime efforts. These eight stories are from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, with special emphasis on the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the “Go for Broke” outfit of Japanese Americans who fought valiantly in Europe during World War II. Many of these men put their lives on the line for their country while their families were confined to internment camps back in the States.
First Days Project
Interview audio and transcripts. Immigrants share the stories of their first days in the United States.
Heart of a Hero
Interviews showcasing the stories of South Asian American healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives
From the University of California Berkeley, this is a collection of oral history interviews with descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerated at internment campus during World War II. This project explores the impact across generations.
Oral Histpry Collection (South Asian American Digital Archive)
A collection of over 400 oral history interviews from the South Asian American Digital Archive.

Newspapers

Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers
From the Library of Congress, this is a collection of interned Japanese-Americans produced newspapers that chronicle the stories and experiences of their community in a time of crisis during WWII.
Filipino Forum (Seattle, WA 1923-1968)
The Seattle Filipino Forum was one of the many newspapers aimed at the early 20th century's growing Filipino community in Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest.
Hilo Tribune (Hilo, HI 1895-1917)
The six-to-ten page Hilo Tribune was published in Hilo on the island of Hawai‘i in English and some Hawaiian from November 23, 1895 to June 27, 1917, by the Hilo Tribune Publishing Company.
Pacific Citizen
The Pacific Citizen is the national newspaper for the Japanese American Citizens League, the nation's oldest and largest AAPI civil rights organization. This newspaper archive includes issues published from 1929 - the present.

Images & Documents

Chinese Exclusion Act: Primary Documents in American History
From their website: The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of primary source materials associated with the Chinese Exclusion Act, including manuscripts, books, newspaper articles, government documents, and broadsides.
Correspondence Collection (South Asian American Digital Archive)
A collection of over 700 letters.
Densho Digital Repository
From their website: Hear the story of the Japanese American incarceration experience from those who lived it, and find thousands of historic photographs, documents, newspapers, letters and other primary source materials from immigration to the WWII incarceration and its aftermath.
Hawaiian Primary Sources
A collection of documents, photographs, and political cartoons from the National Archives.
Immigration through Angel Island
From the Digital Public Library of America, this is a collection of documents and photographs that document immigration through Angel Island, the entryway to America for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from Asian countries.
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive
From their website: The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA) contains thousands of primary sources documenting Japanese American internment, including: Personal diaries, letters, photographs, and drawings.
Philippines Image Collection
Images from the UW-Madison Digital Collection. Dates range from the 1880s to the 1950s.
Photograph Collection (South Asian American Digital Archive)
A collection of over 2,000 photographs.
Primary Source Set: Japanese American Internment
Images from the Library of Congress's collection on Japanese American internment during WWII.
Recollection Wisconsin Asian American Materials
Images and documents from Recollection Wisconsin.

Immigrants Arriving at the Immigration Station on Angel Island

Department of the Treasury, Public Health Service, “Photograph of Immigrants Arriving at the Immigration Station on Angel Island,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/0e5d179427c087217f72e40de07f9b6b.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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Immigrants Arriving at the Immigration Station on Angel Island