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History is more than just text on a page; it is the photographs, voices, and artifacts of the people who lived it. The images and recordings featured across Foundations and Futures are part of a meticulously curated media repository. Whether you are building a lesson plan or investigating an artifact, you can use this database to trace the provenance of our media: discover who created an asset, the historical context behind it, and how it can be used to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences into your classroom.
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Cluster Bomb Opening Display
A display at the COPE Visitor Center Museum. This display shows a cluster bomb opening in mid-air, releasing its deadly cargo or “bombies”, symbolizing the lingering dangers of unexploded ordnance, or UXO.
Featured in:
Laotian Americans, Module 2
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U.S. Bombings in Laos
This map is on display at the COPE Visitor Centre Museum in Vientiane, Laos. Each red dot on the map shows a bombing raid.
Featured in:
Laotian Americans, Module 2
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Map of Laos
This map by the CIA shows Laos as a landlocked country and a key buffer zone between Northern and Southern Vietnam.
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Laotian Americans, Module 2
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Lao Farmer
A Lao farmer holding green tomatoes in Livermore, California.
Featured in:
Laotian Americans, Module 1
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Lao Farmer in Livermore, California
Lao farmer and three children in a field in Livermore, California with corn in the foreground.
Featured in:
Laotian Americans, Module 1
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Chome Sisavath
The author’s mother, Chome Sisavath, harvesting vegetables from her backyard in Sacramento, California.
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Laotian Americans, Module 1
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Education Attainment of Laotions
These graphics created by the Laotian American National Alliance (LANA) provide a statistical snapshot of Laotian Americans in the US using 2019 data from the Pew Research Center.
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Laotian Americans, Module 1
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English Proficiency of Laotians
These graphics created by the Laotian American National Alliance (LANA) provide a statistical snapshot of Laotian Americans in the US using 2019 data from the Pew Research Center.
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Laotian Americans, Module 1
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Top Metropolitan Areas with Laotians
These graphics created by the Laotian American National Alliance (LANA) provide a statistical snapshot of Laotian Americans in the US using 2019 data from the Pew Research Center.
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Laotian Americans, Module 1
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U.S. Laotian Population from 2000 – 2019
These graphics created by the Laotian American National Alliance (LANA) provide a statistical snapshot of Laotian Americans in the US using 2019 data from the Pew Research Center.
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Laotian Americans, Module 1
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The Peoples of Laos Exhibit
When refugees from Laos arrived in the United States, they were lumped together as “Laotians” regardless of ethnic distinction. In 2000, the Richmond Health Center hosted an exhibition of the peoples of Laos that highlighted its diverse ethnic groups.
Featured in:
Laotian Americans, Module 1
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Refugee at Hamilton Air Force Base
A Lao refugee arriving to Hamilton AFB with her bag, mat, purse, thip khao, and silver bowl used for various ceremonies.
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Laotian Americans, Module 1
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Refugees Arrive At Air Force Base
Refugees from Laos arriving at Hamilton Air Force Base in Marin County, California, with only what they could carry with them. The base was a Refugee Transit Center from 1980 to 1983.
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Laotian Americans, Module 1
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Norman Mineta Portrait
In 1975, Norman Mineta was elected as the first Japanese American member of Congress from the continental US. After serving twenty-one years, he was named to cabinet positions under both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
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Japanese Americans, Module 5
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2023 Crystal City Pilgrimage
Eighty years after the wartime incarceration, pilgrimages to the various concentration camp sites are perhaps more numerous and better attended then they have ever been. “Reaching Across Barbed Wire Fences” documents the 2023 Crystal City Pilgrimage.
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Japanese Americans, Module 5
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Map of Okinawa
Map of Okinawa, the largest island of the Ryukyu archipelago.
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Japanese Americans, Module 5
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2023 Okinawan Festival
Annual Okinawan Festivals in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi celebrate Okinawan American culture every Labor Day Weekend. Photo courtesy of Cliff Kimura.
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Japanese Americans, Module 5
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CWRIC Testimonies
In the summer and fall of 1981, hundreds of Japanese Americans testified before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Their often emotional testimony became a turning point in how the community remembered the wartime incarceration.
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Japanese Americans, Module 5
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January 1971 Cover of Gidra
Published in Los Angeles and led by a largely Sansei staff, Gidra was a monthly newspaper that became the leading voice of the Asian American Movement
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Japanese Americans, Module 5
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Warren Furutani at a New York Rally
Sansei activists, like Warren Furutani, were inspired to fight for social change alongside other communities of color in the 1960s and 1970s. He is shown speaking at a New York rally, alongside African American and Chicano activists.
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Japanese Americans, Module 5
