Asian American History

Asian American Primary Source sets from DPLA.

from the National Archives

Links to websites containing information on various groups of Asian Americans.

A grassroots organization dedicated to preserving, educating, and sharing the story of World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans in order to deepen understandings of American history and inspire action for equity.

The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA) contains thousands of primary sources documenting Japanese American internment.

from the National Archives

The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection from Stanford is currently the world’s largest online archive of open-access, full‑image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers.

The Korean American Digital Archive brings more than 13,000 pages of documents, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files together in one searchable collection that documents the Korean American community during the period of resistance to Japanese rule in Korea and reveal the organizational and private experience of Koreans in America between 1903 and 1965.

​SAADA creates a more inclusive society by giving voice to South Asian Americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences.

This archive offers a window into the story of South Asian immigrants from the Punjab region in north India to California since the turn of the twentieth century.

Since the end of the Vietnam Conflict in 1975 a large number of refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam have come to the United States, and especially to California. In order to document their experiences in a new culture, the UC Irvine Libraries established the Southeast Asian Archive in 1987. The Archive's collection is broad and interdisciplinary in documenting the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic life of Americans of Southeast Asian origin.

This project from UC Irvine contributes to expanding archives on Vietnamese Americans with the primary goal of capturing first-generation stories for students, researchers, and the community.

This collection from Rice University consists of video interviews dating from 2011 and conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation. Most interviews are in Vietnamese, although some are in English. The collection guide can be found at https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00865/rice-00865.html.

The Welga Project Digital Archive and Repository focuses on preserving and presenting primary sources regarding the Filipino American Labor and Activism History.

The Chinese American Oral History Project (CAOHP) is dedicated to documenting Chinese American oral histories in Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley.

The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and the UCLA Asian Studies Center initiated the Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project in September 1978. The project collected oral histories from 165 Chinese residents who discussed their lives in Los Angeles up to 1945.