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By: Katie McCarthy
Find out what it was like to grow up in San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1920s and 1930s in this dive into Jade Snow Wong's memoir Fifth Chinese Daughter. The Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress holds Wong's papers in its AAPI Collection.
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By: Rachel Gordon
Join us at the Library of Congress on Saturday, April 5, 2025 for Japanese Culture Day, an official offering of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
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By: Jennifer Ezell
Six teenagers participated in the Library of Congress' High School Summer Internship, researching collections inspired by the exhibition, Collecting Memories in the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery.
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By: Jennifer Ezell
Library of Congress High School interns explore the meaning of Homeland and find connections to items on display in the David M. Rubenstein Treasure's Gallery and the Library of Congress' collections.
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By: Katie McCarthy
Join us to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month in person or from home!
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How do you celebrate the start of a new year? Education Programs Specialist Dianne Choie takes us on a tour of the Library's collections pertaining to Lunar New Year celebrations around the world, focusing especially on Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese celebrations.
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Ever since I started working at the Library of Congress, I always pull up loc.gov/collections when I’m reading historical fiction to find relevant real-life photographs, newspapers, and documents. Recently, I read Malinda Lo’s Young Adult historical fiction novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club. The story follows Lily, a Chinese-American teenager living in San Francisco …
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By: Rachel Gordon
If your family is in the Washington D.C. area on Saturday, April 1st, we would love to see you at the Thomas Jefferson Building for Japanese Culture Day. This celebration is one of the Library’s most popular family-friendly traditions, and a chance for children of all ages to learn about Japanese culture through stories, …
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Library resources to explore the experiences of Japanese-American youth in World War II.
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By: Sasha Dowdy
This is a guest post by Informal Learning Office’s virtual intern, Eori Tokunaga. Norman Yoshio Mineta, who passed away earlier this month, had a long and influential history in American politics and was a proponent of restitution for Japanese American families who were incarcerated during World War II. We are celebrating his contributions to this …
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