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Nikki Haley speaking at the White House.
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The Asian American Presidential Nominee Who Blazed a Path for Nikki Haley

What the differences between Hiram Fong and Nikki Haley tell us about changes to the GOP.
by Vivian Yan-Gonzalez via Made By History on February 8, 2023
Collage of documents and photographs relating to Younghill Kang.

Younghill Kang Is Missing

How an Asian American literary pioneer fell into obscurity.
by Esther Kim via Asian American Writers' Workshop on September 7, 2022
Flowers and signs laid out at a makeshift memorial for the March 19th Georgia shooting.
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Teaching Asian American History in its Complexity Can Help Fight Racism

Asian Americans have been both the victims and perpetrators of racial discrimination.
by Kathryn Gin Lum via Made By History on March 15, 2022
A Asian-American store

Why A New Law Requiring Asian American History In Schools Is So Significant

"By not showing up in American history, by not hearing about Asian Americans in schools, that contributes to that sense of foreignness."
by Li Zhou via Vox on July 20, 2021
Representatives Young Kim and Michelle Steele
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What the Election of Asian American GOP Women Means For the Party

While American conservatism remains largely White, it has slowly but surely become less so.
by Jane H. Hong via Made By History on March 8, 2021
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As Evictions Loom, Cities Revisit a Housing Solution From the 70s

Proposals giving tenants the right to purchase their building are being revived as Covid-19 puts renters at risk.
by Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on October 1, 2020
Barry Goldwater speaking at a 1964 rally, placing his finger over his lips.

The Western Origins of the “Southern Strategy”

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation.
by Bruce Bartlett via The New Republic on June 29, 2020

Was El Monte Really Founded by White Pioneers?

A new book explores the history of the people who have been written out of the L.A. suburb's longtime origin story.
by Steve Chiotakis via KCRW on June 24, 2020

How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

A Pompous Doctor, a Racist Bureaucracy, and More. From the book "Black Death at the Golden Gate".
by David K. Randall via Literary Hub on May 9, 2019
Graphic symbolizing a college stopping African Americans from entering the door.

What We Get Wrong About Affirmative Action

The lawsuit against Harvard forces us to talk about Asian Americans' role in the racial equity debate.
via Vox on December 10, 2018

They Fought and Died for America. Then America Turned Its Back.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.
by Hertz Alegrio via Narratively on July 3, 2018
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Trump’s Views on Immigration Aren’t as Bad as Those in The 1920s. They’re Worse.

The designers of the quota system at least tried to hide their racism.
by David C. Atkinson via Made By History on January 14, 2018

How The White Establishment Waged A 'War' On Chinese Restaurants In The U.S.

Chinese restaurants are now an American staple, but in the past some Americans tried to shut them down.
by Kat Chow via NPR on June 16, 2017
European immigrants in line at Ellis Island.

How Immigrants Fit Into America's Economy, Now and 100 Years Ago

Compared to 19th-century arrivals, today's new arrivals are much more likely to be at the extreme ends of the earnings spectrum.
by Gillian B. White via The Atlantic on January 24, 2016
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Foreign Born Population 1850-2010

An interactive map of immigrant populations in the United States.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, Scott Nesbit, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 1, 2015

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