While some racial and ethnic groups share similarities, it’s important to disaggregate our teaching so that overlooked communities such as Southeast Asians can be properly represented.

Studying the artists and art of Japanese American incarceration can deepen student understanding about the experiences of 120,000 people forcibly removed from their homes during World War II.

Examining the Page Act, which restricted the immigration of Chinese women into the United States, can stimulate important classroom discussions on the stigmatization of Asian women and its lingering implications today.

The featured list of lesson plans, websites, and primary sources can help teachers regularly incorporate APIDA history into the social studies classroom.

This timeline of APIDA history can launch numerous classroom activities that explore the historical, political, and societal contexts of specific events.

Pullout for "Disrupting Dominant Narratives of Asian Americans in the United States Using Yang’s Front Desk"

This article posits that children’s literature can present difficult knowledge about wars in a child-friendly way. The author shares transnational children’s literature and a sample lesson to teach about the Korean War in a more critical and complete manner than is usually provided to students

In “Teaching about the Vietnam War: Centering Southeast Asian Refugee Voices through Children’s Literature,” Sohyun An provides content and pedagogic knowledge for teaching about the Vietnam War through Southeast Asian refugee children’s books. The author provides a brief overview of the war from Southeast Asian perspectives and describes two elementary schoolteachers’ instructional approaches to center Southeast Asian refugee experiences to the Vietnam War lessons. Along with this article, An also created the pullout for this issue, “Handouts and Resources for Teaching about the Vietnam War…

In this article, we offer resources and activities that highlight Patsy Mink's congressional achieve- ments and experiences, and push young students to think about the institution of Congress with a gendered lens.