Asian American Curriculum and Research Project

Links

Museums

• Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
  http://www.janm.org
• Museum of History and Industry (Seattle, WA)
  http://www.seattlehistory.org
• White River Valley Museum (Auburn, WA)
  http://www.wrvmuseum.org
• Wing Luke Museum (Seattle, WA)
  http://www.wingluke.org

Archives and Historical Societies

• Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (Bellingham, WA)
  http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/CPNWS/
• Chinese American Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
  http://www.camla.org
• Densho (Seattle, WA)
  http://www.densho.org
• Jefferson County Historical Society (Port Townsend, WA)
  http://www.jchsmuseum.org
• Oregon History Project of Oregon Historical Society (Portland, OR)
  http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/
• Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project (Seattle, WA)
  http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/
• Survey of Race Relations, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
  http://collections.stanford.edu/srr/bin/page?forward=home
• University of Washington Digital Collections (Seattle, WA)
  http://content.lib.washington.edu
• Washington State Historical Society (Tacoma, WA)
  http://www.washingtonhistory.org/wshs/
• Sikh Pioneers (Davis, CA)
  http://www.sikhpioneers.org

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Resources for Teaching using Primary Sources:

Library of Congress

• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/primary.html
• Analysis of Primary Sources (Includes Time and Place Rule, Bias Rule, and a list of questions for analyzing the sources.)
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/analyze.html
• Types of Primary Sources
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/types.html
• National Archives
  History in the Raw
  http://www.archives.gov/education/history-in-the-raw.html
• Teaching with Documents: Lessons
  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
• Document Analysis Worksheets
  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
• History Matters (Project of City University of New York and George Mason University)
  Making Sense of Evidence (In-depth essays on various types of documents including oral histories, photographs, political cartoons, films, maps, letters and diaries, numbers, and songs. Also includes interviews with scholars, "Scholars in Action")
  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/
• Oregon Historical Society Teaching with Primary Resources
  http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/learning_center/dspResource.cfm?resource_ID=0006F349-C32D-1E3E-9CB580B05272FE9F

 

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