Asian and Pacific Islander History Materials
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. We have thirty-nine free history lessons and assessments to teach Asian and Pacific Islander history this month and year-round. Materials with an asterisk (*) are available to download in Spanish.
United States History Lessons
- Chinese Immigration and Exclusion*
- Annexation of Hawaii*
- Soldiers in the Philippines
- Japanese Segregation in San Francisco
- Japanese American Incarceration
- Ansel Adams at Manzanar*
- The Atomic Bomb
- The Korean War
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Iraq Resolution
United States History Assessments of Thinking (HATs)
- Immigration
- Transcontinental Railroad Connections
- Transcontinental Railroad Significance
- Hawaiian Annexation
- Connections to the Philippine-American War
- Opposition to the Philippine-American War
- American Imperialism
- U.S.-China Relations
- Forced Removal of Japanese Americans
- Japanese Incarceration
- Nagasaki
- Cold War Foreign Policy
- Napalm in Vietnam
- Iran-Contra
World History Lessons
- Confucianism and Daoism
- Fall of the Qin Dynasty (also available in Chinese)
- Samurai Opening Up the Textbook
- The Sepoy Rebellion
- Invasion of Nanking*
- India Partition
- The Atomic Bomb
- The Korean War
- China's Cultural Revolution
World History History Assessments of Thinking (HATs)