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.
United States History Lessons
- Chinese Immigration and Exclusion*
- Annexation of Hawaii
- Philippine-American War Political Cartoons
- 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
- Forced Removal of Japanese Americans
- Japanese Incarceration
- Nagasaki
- Cold War Foreign Policy
- Napalm in Vietnam
World History Lessons
- Confucianism and Daoism
- Fall of the Qin Dynasty
- 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)
- Siege of Golconda*
- Qing Engraving
- Japan and America
- Russo-Japanese War
- Iranian Constitutional Revolution
- Dome Hospital
- Nagasaki
- Cold War Foreign Policy
- Buddhist Monk Protest
- China's Cultural Revolution
- Napalm in Vietnam
- Iranian Revolution
*The student materials for these lessons are also available in Spanish.